Yuan Zheng
E232185
Yuan Zheng, better known as Eric Yuan, is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yuan Zheng canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2066542 — 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: Yuan Zheng Context triple: [Eric Yuan, birthName, Yuan Zheng]
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A.
Xinan Guanhua
Xinan Guanhua is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, including provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
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B.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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C.
Zeng
Zeng is a Chinese surname and given name commonly rendered in pinyin and borne by numerous historical and contemporary figures in China.
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D.
Tzi Ma
Tzi Ma is a Chinese-American actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film and television, including prominent appearances in projects like "Arrival," "The Man in the High Castle," and "Rush Hour."
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E.
Kaihui
Kaihui is a Chinese given name most notably borne by Yang Kaihui, the revolutionary and early partner of Mao Zedong.
- 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: Yuan Zheng Target entity description: Yuan Zheng, better known as Eric Yuan, is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications.
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A.
Xinan Guanhua
Xinan Guanhua is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, including provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
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B.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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C.
Zeng
Zeng is a Chinese surname and given name commonly rendered in pinyin and borne by numerous historical and contemporary figures in China.
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D.
Tzi Ma
Tzi Ma is a Chinese-American actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film and television, including prominent appearances in projects like "Arrival," "The Man in the High Castle," and "Rush Hour."
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E.
Kaihui
Kaihui is a Chinese given name most notably borne by Yang Kaihui, the revolutionary and early partner of Mao Zedong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese-American person
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billionaire ⓘ business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Eric Yuan ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Time 100 most influential people (2020)
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linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
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| boardMemberOf | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| businessModelFocus | software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| citizenship |
China
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United States of America ⓘ |
| companyIPO |
Zoom Video Communications NASDAQ:ZM
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linked to:
Zoom Video Communications
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| companyIPOYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
China University of Mining and Technology
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Shandong University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
software industry
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video conferencing technology ⓘ |
| founded | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| immigrationStatus | immigrant to the United States from China ⓘ |
| industryOfFoundedCompany | video communications ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| leadershipStyle | product-focused management ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Yuan Zheng ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese-American ⓘ |
| netWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| notableEvent | led Zoom during global COVID-19 pandemic usage surge ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tai'an, Shandong, China ⓘ |
| position |
chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications
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founder of Zoom Video Communications ⓘ vice president of engineering at Cisco (WebEx division) ⓘ |
| previousEmployer |
Cisco Systems
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WebEx ⓘ
linked to:
Webex
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| relocatedFor | technology career in Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Yuan Zheng Description of subject: Yuan Zheng, better known as Eric Yuan, is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.