Mark Kvamme
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Mark Kvamme is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur known for co-founding the comedy video website Funny or Die and for his prominent role at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Kvamme canonical | 1 |
| Michael Kvamme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621757 — 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: Mark Kvamme Context triple: [Funny or Die, foundedBy, Mark Kvamme]
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A.
Tim Lovestedt
Tim Lovestedt is a screenwriter known for his work on the military drama film "Megan Leavey."
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B.
Kurt Johnstad
Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action films "300" and "Atomic Blonde."
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C.
Jon Jensen
Jon Jensen is the central protagonist of the film "The Salvation," around whom the story’s dramatic events and conflicts revolve.
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D.
Christopher Tellefsen
Christopher Tellefsen is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "A Quiet Place," "Moneyball," and "Capote."
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E.
Erik Jendresen
Erik Jendresen is an American writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- 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: Mark Kvamme Target entity description: Mark Kvamme is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur known for co-founding the comedy video website Funny or Die and for his prominent role at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
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A.
Tim Lovestedt
Tim Lovestedt is a screenwriter known for his work on the military drama film "Megan Leavey."
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B.
Kurt Johnstad
Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action films "300" and "Atomic Blonde."
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C.
Jon Jensen
Jon Jensen is the central protagonist of the film "The Salvation," around whom the story’s dramatic events and conflicts revolve.
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D.
Christopher Tellefsen
Christopher Tellefsen is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "A Quiet Place," "Moneyball," and "Capote."
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E.
Erik Jendresen
Erik Jendresen is an American writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed World War II miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| coFounded | Funny or Die ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
technology startups
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venture capital ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewOn |
entrepreneurship
ⓘ
startup funding ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| hasRole |
board member of portfolio companies
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early-stage investor ⓘ |
| industry |
media
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| investedIn |
internet companies
ⓘ
technology startups ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Funny or Die ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in online comedy and entertainment
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prominent role in Silicon Valley venture capital ⓘ |
| notableWork | Funny or Die ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Mark Kvamme Description of subject: Mark Kvamme is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur known for co-founding the comedy video website Funny or Die and for his prominent role at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mark Kvamme