Cyan Banister
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Cyan Banister is an American venture capitalist and angel investor known for early-stage investments in prominent tech startups and her role as a partner at Founders Fund.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyan Banister canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424438 — 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: Cyan Banister Context triple: [Founders Fund, foundedBy, Cyan Banister]
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A.
Macon Blair
Macon Blair is an American actor, writer, and director known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier and his roles in gritty independent thrillers and dark comedies.
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B.
Coran Capshaw
Coran Capshaw is an American music industry executive and artist manager best known for managing Dave Matthews Band and founding the independent record label ATO Records.
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C.
Chris Bender
Chris Bender is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the thriller "Red Eye."
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D.
Kealia Ohai
Kealia Ohai is an American professional soccer forward known for her standout NWSL career and leadership with the Houston Dash.
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E.
Ayn Robbins
Ayn Robbins is an American lyricist best known for co-writing the iconic theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky.
- 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: Cyan Banister Target entity description: Cyan Banister is an American venture capitalist and angel investor known for early-stage investments in prominent tech startups and her role as a partner at Founders Fund.
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A.
Macon Blair
Macon Blair is an American actor, writer, and director known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier and his roles in gritty independent thrillers and dark comedies.
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B.
Coran Capshaw
Coran Capshaw is an American music industry executive and artist manager best known for managing Dave Matthews Band and founding the independent record label ATO Records.
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C.
Chris Bender
Chris Bender is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including the thriller "Red Eye."
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D.
Kealia Ohai
Kealia Ohai is an American professional soccer forward known for her standout NWSL career and leadership with the Houston Dash.
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E.
Ayn Robbins
Ayn Robbins is an American lyricist best known for co-writing the iconic theme song "Gonna Fly Now" from the film Rocky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
angel investor
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Founders Fund ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
early-stage investing
ⓘ
technology startups ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
advising startups
ⓘ
angel investing ⓘ mentoring startup founders ⓘ participating in venture capital funds ⓘ public speaking on entrepreneurship ⓘ seed-stage investing ⓘ technology conference appearances ⓘ |
| hasInvestedIn |
consumer internet startups
ⓘ
early-stage technology companies ⓘ marketplace startups ⓘ software startups ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn |
early-stage product-market fit
ⓘ
founder empathy ⓘ supporting underrepresented founders ⓘ |
| hasRole | board member of various startups ⓘ |
| industry |
finance
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
participation in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem
ⓘ
supporting early-stage founders ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Silicon Valley investor community ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early-stage technology investments
ⓘ
investments in prominent tech startups ⓘ |
| notableRole | female leader in venture capital ⓘ |
| occupation |
angel investor
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Founders Fund ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| socialMediaPresence |
LinkedIn
ⓘ
Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| spouse | Scott Banister ⓘ |
| typeOfInvestor |
angel investor in technology sector
ⓘ
early-stage investor ⓘ seed investor ⓘ |
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: Cyan Banister Description of subject: Cyan Banister is an American venture capitalist and angel investor known for early-stage investments in prominent tech startups and her role as a partner at Founders Fund.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.