Aaron Levie
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Aaron Levie is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud content management company Box.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aaron Levie canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2716769 — 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: Aaron Levie Context triple: [Box, foundedBy, Aaron Levie]
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A.
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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B.
Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan I. Schwartz is an American technology executive best known for serving as the CEO of Sun Microsystems during the mid-2000s.
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C.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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D.
Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur, author, and investor best known as the co-founder of the creative platform Behance and as a longtime product leader at Adobe.
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E.
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.
- 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: Aaron Levie Target entity description: Aaron Levie is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud content management company Box.
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A.
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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B.
Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan I. Schwartz is an American technology executive best known for serving as the CEO of Sun Microsystems during the mid-2000s.
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C.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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D.
Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur, author, and investor best known as the co-founder of the creative platform Behance and as a longtime product leader at Adobe.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Silicon Valley startup ecosystem ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| boardMemberOf | Box ⓘ |
| businessModelFocus | subscription-based SaaS ⓘ |
| businessStrategy | freemium to enterprise upsell ⓘ |
| coFounded | Box ⓘ |
| describedAs | American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Box ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer | Box ⓘ |
| familyName |
Levie
ⓘ
linked to:
Levy
|
| fieldOfWork |
cloud content management
ⓘ
software as a service ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cloud collaboration solutions
ⓘ
enterprise customers ⓘ |
| foundedCompanyType | cloud content management company ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Aaron ⓘ |
| hasPublicProfile |
business media interviews
ⓘ
technology conferences ⓘ |
| hasRole |
startup CEO
ⓘ
technology founder ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
content management ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ |
| knownFor | Box ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Aaron Levie ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | commentary on technology and enterprise software ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Box as an enterprise cloud content platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Box
ⓘ
Co-founder of Box ⓘ |
| productFocus |
collaboration tools
ⓘ
enterprise content management ⓘ file storage and sharing ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Twitter
ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| startupStageExperience |
early-stage technology startups
ⓘ
growth-stage technology companies ⓘ |
| workLocation | Redwood City, California ⓘ |
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: Aaron Levie Description of subject: Aaron Levie is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud content management company Box.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.