Pirates of Silicon Valley
E451109
Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 docudrama film that dramatizes the early rivalry and rise of Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates during the personal computer revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pirates of Silicon Valley canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4549618 — 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: Pirates of Silicon Valley Context triple: [Noah Wyle, notableWork, Pirates of Silicon Valley]
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A.
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires is a nonfiction book by Ben Mezrich that chronicles the controversial founding of Facebook and the personal and legal conflicts among its early creators.
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B.
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
"Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft" is a business and technology memoir chronicling the rise of Netscape and its battle with Microsoft during the early days of the commercial internet.
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C.
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo Park is the famous nickname of American inventor Thomas Edison, highlighting his prolific and groundbreaking work at his Menlo Park laboratory.
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D.
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
"iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the autobiography of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, chronicling his life, technical innovations, and role in the personal computer revolution.
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E.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a documentary film that investigates the rise and fall of Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, exposing fraud and deception in the Silicon Valley biotech world.
- 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: Pirates of Silicon Valley Target entity description: Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 docudrama film that dramatizes the early rivalry and rise of Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates during the personal computer revolution.
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A.
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires is a nonfiction book by Ben Mezrich that chronicles the controversial founding of Facebook and the personal and legal conflicts among its early creators.
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B.
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
"Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft" is a business and technology memoir chronicling the rise of Netscape and its battle with Microsoft during the early days of the commercial internet.
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C.
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo Park is the famous nickname of American inventor Thomas Edison, highlighting his prolific and groundbreaking work at his Menlo Park laboratory.
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D.
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
"iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the autobiography of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, chronicling his life, technical innovations, and role in the personal computer revolution.
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E.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a documentary film that investigates the rise and fall of Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes, exposing fraud and deception in the Silicon Valley biotech world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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: Pirates of Silicon Valley Description of subject: Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 docudrama film that dramatizes the early rivalry and rise of Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates during the personal computer revolution.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.