Dave McClure
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Dave McClure is an American entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the founder of the startup accelerator and venture fund 500 Startups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave McClure canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780475 — 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: Dave McClure Context triple: [PayPal Mafia, hasMember, Dave McClure]
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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.
Ben Horowitz
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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C.
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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D.
Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is an American investor, venture capitalist, and musician best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and an early investor in major technology companies.
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E.
Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American entrepreneur best known as the controversial co-founder and former CEO of the shared-office-space company WeWork.
- 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: Dave McClure Target entity description: Dave McClure is an American entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the founder of the startup accelerator and venture fund 500 Startups.
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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.
Ben Horowitz
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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C.
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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D.
Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is an American investor, venture capitalist, and musician best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and an early investor in major technology companies.
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E.
Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American entrepreneur best known as the controversial co-founder and former CEO of the shared-office-space company WeWork.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
angel investor
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | McClure ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
applied mathematics
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engineering ⓘ |
| founderOf | 500 Startups ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Dave ⓘ |
| hasFounded |
500 Startups accelerator program
ⓘ
linked to:
500 Startups
500 Startups venture fund ⓘ
linked to:
500 Startups
|
| hasRole |
startup accelerator founder
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startup mentor ⓘ venture fund manager ⓘ |
| industry |
startups
ⓘ
technology ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
early-stage startups
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internet startups ⓘ seed-stage startups ⓘ |
| jobTitle | Director of Marketing at PayPal ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding 500 Startups ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Dave McClure ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableActivity | investing in global startup ecosystems ⓘ |
| notableFor |
seed investing at scale
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supporting international startup founders ⓘ |
| notableProgram |
500 Startups accelerator
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linked to:
500 Startups
|
| occupation |
angel investor
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of 500 Startups
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Managing Partner of 500 Startups ⓘ |
| workedAt |
Founders Fund
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PayPal ⓘ Simply Hired ⓘ |
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: Dave McClure Description of subject: Dave McClure is an American entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the founder of the startup accelerator and venture fund 500 Startups.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.