Ben Horowitz
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Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Horowitz canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365477 — 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: Ben Horowitz Context triple: [Andreessen Horowitz, foundedBy, Ben Horowitz]
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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Sean Parker
Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook.
- 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: Ben Horowitz Target entity description: Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Sean Parker
Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ technology executive ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| activeIn | Silicon Valley tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Columbia University
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various technology companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | BA in Computer Science ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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UCLA ⓘ
linked to:
University of California, Los Angeles
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| employer | Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| familyName | Horowitz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
startup management
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technology industry ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded | Loudcloud ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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management literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
company culture
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leadership in startups ⓘ managing high-growth companies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Andreessen Horowitz
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technology investing ⓘ writing about startup management ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ben Horowitz ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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What You Do Is Who You Are ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| partnerIn | Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Loudcloud
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CEO of Opsware ⓘ co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ general partner at Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| previousWorkplace |
AOL
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Loudcloud ⓘ Netscape ⓘ
linked to:
Netscape Communications Corporation
Opsware ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| spouse | Felicia Horowitz ⓘ |
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: Ben Horowitz Description of subject: Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.