Charlie Waite
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Charlie Waite is a venture capitalist best known as a founder of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Greylock Partners.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charlie Waite canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780515 — 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: Charlie Waite Context triple: [Greylock Partners, founder, Charlie Waite]
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A.
Johnny Whitaker
Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
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B.
Malcolm Waite
Malcolm Waite was an American silent film actor best remembered for his supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies, including Charlie Chaplin films.
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C.
Norm Charlton
Norm Charlton is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as one of the dominant "Nasty Boys" bullpen trio for the Cincinnati Reds during their early 1990s success.
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D.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
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E.
Frank Wead
Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
- 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: Charlie Waite Target entity description: Charlie Waite is a venture capitalist best known as a founder of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Greylock Partners.
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A.
Johnny Whitaker
Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
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B.
Malcolm Waite
Malcolm Waite was an American silent film actor best remembered for his supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies, including Charlie Chaplin films.
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C.
Norm Charlton
Norm Charlton is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as one of the dominant "Nasty Boys" bullpen trio for the Cincinnati Reds during their early 1990s success.
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D.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
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E.
Frank Wead
Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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venture capital firm ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| activeInCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| activeInRegion | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
technology investing
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| founder | Charlie Waite ⓘ |
| founderOf | Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| industry | venture capital ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| location |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notability | prominent Silicon Valley investor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early-stage venture investments
ⓘ
technology investments ⓘ |
| notableWork | Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| occupation |
investor
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venture capitalist ⓘ |
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: Charlie Waite Description of subject: Charlie Waite is a venture capitalist best known as a 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:
Charlie Waite