Thierry Cruanes
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Thierry Cruanes is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data warehousing company Snowflake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thierry Cruanes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T825643 — 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: Thierry Cruanes Context triple: [Snowflake, foundedBy, Thierry Cruanes]
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A.
Jean-François Soitoux
Jean-François Soitoux was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his academic style and for mentoring artists such as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
Paul Thiry
Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
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C.
Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as an early master of the fête galante style and as a teacher of Antoine Watteau.
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D.
Michel Macary
Michel Macary is a French architect best known for co-designing major public venues, including the iconic Stade de France in Paris.
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E.
Bertrand Fagalde
Bertrand Fagalde was a French admiral best known for his leadership of French naval forces during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.
- 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: Thierry Cruanes Target entity description: Thierry Cruanes is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data warehousing company Snowflake.
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A.
Jean-François Soitoux
Jean-François Soitoux was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his academic style and for mentoring artists such as Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
Paul Thiry
Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
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C.
Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as an early master of the fête galante style and as a teacher of Antoine Watteau.
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D.
Michel Macary
Michel Macary is a French architect best known for co-designing major public venues, including the iconic Stade de France in Paris.
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E.
Bertrand Fagalde
Bertrand Fagalde was a French admiral best known for his leadership of French naval forces during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coFounded |
Snowflake Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
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| coFounder | Thierry Cruanes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Université Paris-Sud (Paris XI)
ⓘ
linked to:
Université Paris-Sud
École Polytechnique ⓘ |
| employer |
IBM
ⓘ
Oracle Corporation ⓘ Snowflake Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
| fieldOfWork |
cloud data warehousing
ⓘ
computer science ⓘ data management ⓘ database systems ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Snowflake Inc. ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Snowflake ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| notableFor | designing Snowflake’s query processing engine ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Snowflake cloud data platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technical Architect at Snowflake Inc. ⓘ |
| workedOn |
cloud-native data warehouse architecture
ⓘ
database performance ⓘ parallel databases ⓘ query optimization ⓘ |
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: Thierry Cruanes Description of subject: Thierry Cruanes is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data warehousing company Snowflake.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.