Jeff Weiner
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Jeff Weiner is an American business executive best known for serving as the longtime CEO of LinkedIn, where he oversaw the company’s rapid growth and acquisition by Microsoft.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeff Weiner canonical | 2 |
| Jeff Weiner – former Chief Executive Officer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T264746 — 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: Jeff Weiner Context triple: [LinkedIn, formerKeyPerson, Jeff Weiner]
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A.
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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B.
Michael Weiner
Michael Weiner was an American labor lawyer who served as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, where he was known for his influential role in player labor relations and collective bargaining.
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C.
Josh Harris
Josh Harris is an American billionaire investor and sports team owner best known as a co-founder of Apollo Global Management and the principal owner of multiple professional franchises, including the NFL’s Washington Commanders.
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D.
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former owner of The New Republic magazine.
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E.
Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin is an American chemist and nanotechnology pioneer known for inventing dip-pen nanolithography and developing spherical nucleic acids for biomedical applications.
- 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: Jeff Weiner Target entity description: Jeff Weiner is an American business executive best known for serving as the longtime CEO of LinkedIn, where he oversaw the company’s rapid growth and acquisition by Microsoft.
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A.
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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B.
Michael Weiner
Michael Weiner was an American labor lawyer who served as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, where he was known for his influential role in player labor relations and collective bargaining.
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C.
Josh Harris
Josh Harris is an American billionaire investor and sports team owner best known as a co-founder of Apollo Global Management and the principal owner of multiple professional franchises, including the NFL’s Washington Commanders.
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D.
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former owner of The New Republic magazine.
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E.
Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin is an American chemist and nanotechnology pioneer known for inventing dip-pen nanolithography and developing spherical nucleic acids for biomedical applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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chief executive officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| acquisitionPartner | Microsoft ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 26200000000 USD ⓘ |
| almaMater | The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Northern California)
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linked to:
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Glassdoor Highest Rated CEO recognition ⓘ
linked to:
Glassdoor
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| boardMemberOf |
Intuit
ⓘ
LinkedIn ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | Bachelor of Science in Economics ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| familyName | Weiner ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | Economics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
leadership development
ⓘ
organizational culture ⓘ professional networking ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeff ⓘ |
| hasSpokenAt |
Stanford Graduate School of Business
ⓘ
Wharton School events ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being CEO of LinkedIn
ⓘ
leading LinkedIn’s acquisition by Microsoft ⓘ |
| memberOf | LinkedIn board of directors ⓘ |
| name | Jeff Weiner ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Led LinkedIn through its initial public offering
ⓘ
Led LinkedIn’s sale to Microsoft ⓘ |
| notableIdea | compassionate management ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Developing LinkedIn’s long-term vision and strategy
ⓘ
Scaling LinkedIn’s professional network globally ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn
ⓘ
Executive Chairman of LinkedIn ⓘ Executive Vice President at Yahoo! ⓘ Executive-in-Residence at Greylock Partners ⓘ Vice President at Warner Bros. ⓘ |
| previousEmployer |
Greylock Partners
ⓘ
Warner Bros. ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Yahoo! ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| socialMediaPlatformLed | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| workPeriodEnd | 2020-05-31 ⓘ |
| workPeriodStart | 2008-12-01 ⓘ |
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: Jeff Weiner Description of subject: Jeff Weiner is an American business executive best known for serving as the longtime CEO of LinkedIn, where he oversaw the company’s rapid growth and acquisition by Microsoft.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jeff Weiner