Bryan Johnson
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Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding the online payments company Braintree and later the brain–computer interface company Kernel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bryan Johnson canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1813096 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bryan Johnson Context triple: [Braintree, foundedBy, Bryan Johnson]
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A.
Andrew Marcus
Andrew Marcus is a literary editor known for preparing an edition of E. M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
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B.
James Robinson
James Robinson was a civil rights activist best known as one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Nick Houy
Nick Houy is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2023 movie "Barbie."
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bryan Johnson Target entity description: Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding the online payments company Braintree and later the brain–computer interface company Kernel.
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A.
Andrew Marcus
Andrew Marcus is a literary editor known for preparing an edition of E. M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
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B.
James Robinson
James Robinson was a civil rights activist best known as one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a key organization in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Nick Houy
Nick Houy is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the 2023 movie "Barbie."
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| BlueprintFocus |
health optimization
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longevity ⓘ |
| BlueprintPractices |
extensive biomarker tracking
ⓘ
strict diet and sleep regimen ⓘ |
| BraintreeAcquiredBy |
eBay Inc.
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linked to:
eBay
|
| BraintreeAcquisitionValue | 800000000 USD ⓘ |
| BraintreeAcquisitionYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| BraintreeFoundedAs |
Braintree Payment Solutions
ⓘ
linked to:
Braintree Direct
|
| BraintreeHeadquartersLocation | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| BraintreeIndustry | online payments ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-08-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brigham Young University
ⓘ
University of Chicago Booth School of Business ⓘ |
| founded |
Blueprint (longevity project)
ⓘ
Braintree ⓘ Kernel ⓘ OS Fund ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in International Studies
ⓘ
MBA ⓘ |
| hasChild | 3 children ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaPresenceOn |
Instagram
ⓘ
X (Twitter) ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
YouTube ⓘ |
| KernelFocus |
brain–computer interfaces
ⓘ
non-invasive brain recording ⓘ |
| KernelFoundedIn | 2016 ⓘ |
| KernelIndustry | neurotechnology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Braintree
ⓘ
founding Kernel ⓘ longevity and biohacking initiatives ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | various technology and health podcasts ⓘ |
| notableWork | Blueprint protocol ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| OSFundFocus |
breakthrough hard science companies
ⓘ
science and technology startups ⓘ |
| OSFundFoundedIn | 2014 ⓘ |
| OSFundInitialCapital | 100000000 USD ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Provo, Utah, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Provo, Utah
|
| religion |
raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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linked to:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
|
| residence |
Venice, California, United States
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linked to:
Venice, California
|
| spouse | divorced ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bryan Johnson Description of subject: Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding the online payments company Braintree and later the brain–computer interface company Kernel.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.