Steve Kirsch
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Steve Kirsch is an American entrepreneur and inventor best known for founding multiple technology companies, including the early internet search engine Infoseek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Kirsch canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4386893 — 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: Steve Kirsch Context triple: [Infoseek, foundedBy, Steve Kirsch]
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A.
Kirk Schulz
Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
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B.
Jeff Kirschenbaum
Jeff Kirschenbaum is a Hollywood film producer known for working on major studio features, including big-budget family and action movies.
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C.
Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major artists across rock and pop music, including collaborations with the likes of Eric Clapton and George Harrison.
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D.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- 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: Steve Kirsch Target entity description: Steve Kirsch is an American entrepreneur and inventor best known for founding multiple technology companies, including the early internet search engine Infoseek.
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A.
Kirk Schulz
Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
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B.
Jeff Kirschenbaum
Jeff Kirschenbaum is a Hollywood film producer known for working on major studio features, including big-budget family and action movies.
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C.
Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman is an American record producer and songwriter known for his work with major artists across rock and pop music, including collaborations with the likes of Eric Clapton and George Harrison.
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D.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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E.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed | optical mouse technologies ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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information technology ⓘ internet search ⓘ |
| founded |
Abaca Technology
ⓘ
Frame Technology Corporation ⓘ Infoseek ⓘ M10 Networks ⓘ Mouse Systems ⓘ OneID ⓘ Propel Software ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
philanthropy
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Kirsch ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Steve ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://stevekirsch.substack.com/ ⓘ |
| industry |
internet industry
ⓘ
software industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Infoseek
ⓘ
founding multiple technology companies ⓘ |
| memberOf | MIT alumni ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering early internet search with Infoseek ⓘ |
| notableWork | Infoseek ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ inventor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
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: Steve Kirsch Description of subject: Steve Kirsch is an American entrepreneur and inventor best known for founding multiple technology companies, including the early internet search engine Infoseek.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.