Fred Wilson
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Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fred Wilson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4203832 — 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: Fred Wilson Context triple: [Jack Prescott, opposes, Fred Wilson]
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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.
Dave McClure
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist known for early leadership roles at companies like PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square and for his investments in numerous successful startups.
- 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: Fred Wilson Target entity description: Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
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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.
Dave McClure
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist known for early leadership roles at companies like PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square and for his investments in numerous successful startups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blogger
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human ⓘ technology investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| activeInIndustrySince | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York tech scene ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| blogTitle | AVC ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various technology startups ⓘ |
| coFounded | Flatiron Partners ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Union Square Ventures ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT
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MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| education |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Twitter
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linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
personal blog ⓘ |
| influentialIn | New York City tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
internet services
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marketplaces ⓘ social media ⓘ software startups ⓘ |
| investmentStageFocus |
early stage
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growth stage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
AVC blog
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co-founding Union Square Ventures ⓘ early-stage technology investing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Fred Wilson ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
blogger
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investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| partnerAt | Union Square Ventures ⓘ |
| philanthropicActivity |
support for arts and culture
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support for education initiatives ⓘ |
| previouslyPartnerAt | Flatiron Partners ⓘ |
| roleAtUnionSquareVentures | managing partner ⓘ |
| spouse | Joanne Wilson ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
angel investor
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blogger ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
entrepreneurship
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startups ⓘ technology ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| writesBlogAt | AVC.com ⓘ |
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: Fred Wilson Description of subject: Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.