Gil Shwed
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Gil Shwed is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gil Shwed canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3561717 — 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: Gil Shwed Context triple: [Tel Aviv University, hasNotableAlumni, Gil Shwed]
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A.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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B.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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C.
Zalman Ehrlich
Zalman Ehrlich is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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D.
Meir Vilner
Meir Vilner was a prominent Israeli communist politician and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Peretz Smolenskin
Peretz Smolenskin was a 19th-century Hebrew novelist, editor, and thinker who became one of the leading literary and ideological voices of the Jewish Enlightenment movement.
- 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: Gil Shwed Target entity description: Gil Shwed is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies.
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A.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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B.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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C.
Zalman Ehrlich
Zalman Ehrlich is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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D.
Meir Vilner
Meir Vilner was a prominent Israeli communist politician and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Peretz Smolenskin
Peretz Smolenskin was a 19th-century Hebrew novelist, editor, and thinker who became one of the leading literary and ideological voices of the Jewish Enlightenment movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tel Aviv tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| basedIn | Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| businessDomain |
network security
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software products ⓘ |
| coFounded | Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| companyFoundedFocus | cybersecurity software ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| employer | Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| familyName | Shwed ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer security
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cybersecurity ⓘ information technology ⓘ |
| givenName | Gil ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
corporate leadership
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product strategy in cybersecurity ⓘ technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| hasGlobalBusinessPresenceThrough | Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| hasLongtimeRole | longtime CEO of Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| hasNotableAchievement | building Check Point into a leading global cybersecurity company ⓘ |
| hasRole |
company founder
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technology leader ⓘ |
| industry |
cybersecurity industry
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software industry ⓘ |
| influencedDomain |
enterprise network security
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firewall technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Check Point Software Technologies
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serving as CEO of Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| name | Gil Shwed ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of firewall technology at Check Point ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Check Point Software Technologies
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chairman of Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| residence | Israel ⓘ |
| sharesNationalityWith | Check Point Software Technologies ⓘ |
| typeOfBusinessLed | public company ⓘ |
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: Gil Shwed Description of subject: Gil Shwed is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.