Sam Altman
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Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Altman canonical | 16 |
| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | 1 |
| Samuel Harris Altman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T146297 — 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: Sam Altman Context triple: [OpenAI, coFounder, Sam Altman]
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A.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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B.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley’s fintech industry.
- 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: Sam Altman Target entity description: Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
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A.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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B.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley’s fintech industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence leader
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ startup founder ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Helion Energy
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OpenAI ⓘ Worldcoin ⓘ Y Combinator ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Helion Energy
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OpenAI ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Loopt
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OpenAI ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-04-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
John Burroughs School
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | OpenAI ⓘ |
| familyName |
Altman
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linked to:
Robert Altman
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| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded | Hydrazine Capital ⓘ |
| fullName |
Samuel Harris Altman
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linked to:
Sam Altman
|
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Jack Altman ⓘ |
| hasSpokenOn |
existential risk from advanced AI
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future of work ⓘ universal basic income ⓘ |
| investedIn |
Airbnb
ⓘ
Asana ⓘ Pinterest ⓘ Reddit ⓘ Stripe ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for AI safety and governance
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investments in technology startups ⓘ role in popularizing accelerator model via Y Combinator ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership at OpenAI
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leadership at Y Combinator ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of OpenAI during development of large language models ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Loopt
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CEO of OpenAI ⓘ chairman of Y Combinator ⓘ co-founder of OpenAI ⓘ partner at Y Combinator ⓘ president of Y Combinator ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| studied | computer science ⓘ |
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: Sam Altman Description of subject: Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sam Altman
linked to: Sam Altman