Dan Gregory
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Dan Gregory is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Greylock Partners.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Gregory canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780514 — 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: Dan Gregory Context triple: [Greylock Partners, founder, Dan Gregory]
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A.
Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "The Hurricane" and "Wyatt Earp."
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B.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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C.
Brad Van Pelt
Brad Van Pelt was a standout linebacker for the New York Giants in the 1970s and early 1980s, known for his Pro Bowl-caliber play and leadership on defense.
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D.
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in films like "Do the Right Thing" and the "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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E.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
- 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: Dan Gregory Target entity description: Dan Gregory is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Greylock Partners.
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A.
Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon is an American screenwriter known for his work on films such as "The Hurricane" and "Wyatt Earp."
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B.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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C.
Brad Van Pelt
Brad Van Pelt was a standout linebacker for the New York Giants in the 1970s and early 1980s, known for his Pro Bowl-caliber play and leadership on defense.
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D.
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in films like "Do the Right Thing" and the "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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E.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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venture capital firm ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Dan Gregory ⓘ |
| industry | venture capital ⓘ |
| location | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-founding Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| occupation | venture capitalist ⓘ |
| workLocation | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Dan Gregory Description of subject: Dan Gregory is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Greylock Partners.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dan Gregory