Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist
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Michael Moritz is a prominent British-American venture capitalist and philanthropist, best known for his long tenure at Sequoia Capital and major early investments in companies like Google and PayPal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946307 — 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)
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Target entity: Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist Context triple: [Crankstart, founderOccupation, Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist]
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
Fred Wilson
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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E.
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.
- 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: Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist Target entity description: Michael Moritz is a prominent British-American venture capitalist and philanthropist, best known for his long tenure at Sequoia Capital and major early investments in companies like Google and PayPal.
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
Fred Wilson
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
author
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Return to the Little Kingdom
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linked to:
The Little Kingdom
The Little Kingdom ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-09-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Christ Church, Oxford
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Oxford University ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
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| employer | Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| familyName | Moritz ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | history ⓘ |
| genre | business writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| knownFor | philanthropic donations to education ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| name | Michael Moritz ⓘ |
| nationality | British-American ⓘ |
| notableAward | included on Forbes Midas List of top tech investors ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long tenure at Sequoia Capital
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major early investment in Google ⓘ major early investment in PayPal ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Return to the Little Kingdom
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linked to:
The Little Kingdom
co-author of "The Little Kingdom" ⓘ early investor in Google ⓘ early investor in Klarna ⓘ early investor in LinkedIn ⓘ early investor in PayPal ⓘ early investor in Stripe ⓘ early investor in Yahoo! ⓘ early investor in YouTube ⓘ early investor in Zappos ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| philanthropyFocus |
cultural institutions
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education ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cardiff ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Sequoia Capital
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partner at Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Heyman ⓘ |
| workedAs | journalist at Time magazine ⓘ |
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: Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist Description of subject: Michael Moritz is a prominent British-American venture capitalist and philanthropist, best known for his long tenure at Sequoia Capital and major early investments in companies like Google and PayPal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.