John Stuelpnagel
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John Stuelpnagel is a biotechnology entrepreneur and executive best known as a co-founder of the genomics company Illumina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Stuelpnagel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4850311 — 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: John Stuelpnagel Context triple: [Illumina, foundedBy, John Stuelpnagel]
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A.
John F. Seitz
John F. Seitz was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood and on classic film noirs such as Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.
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B.
Thomas Tamm
Thomas Tamm is a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer known for exposing the Bush administration’s secret warrantless wiretapping program, code-named Stellar Wind.
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C.
Andrew Meyer
Andrew Meyer is a fictional character in the television series "Veep," known as the ex-husband of main character Selina Meyer and the father of her daughter Catherine.
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D.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- 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: John Stuelpnagel Target entity description: John Stuelpnagel is a biotechnology entrepreneur and executive best known as a co-founder of the genomics company Illumina.
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A.
John F. Seitz
John F. Seitz was a prominent American cinematographer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood and on classic film noirs such as Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard.
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B.
Thomas Tamm
Thomas Tamm is a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer known for exposing the Bush administration’s secret warrantless wiretapping program, code-named Stellar Wind.
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C.
Andrew Meyer
Andrew Meyer is a fictional character in the television series "Veep," known as the ex-husband of main character Selina Meyer and the father of her daughter Catherine.
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D.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biotechnology entrepreneur
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | San Diego biotechnology community ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Diego, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Diego, California, United States
|
| boardMemberOf |
10x Genomics
ⓘ
Achaogen ⓘ AviadoBio ⓘ Aviir ⓘ DNAnexus ⓘ Element Biosciences ⓘ Fabric Genomics ⓘ Illumina ⓘ Inscripta ⓘ Sequenta ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Illumina
ⓘ
Illumina, Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Illumina
|
| educatedAt |
University of California, Davis
ⓘ
University of California, San Diego ⓘ |
| field |
biotechnology
ⓘ
genomics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDegree |
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
ⓘ
PhD in biology ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
DNA sequencing technologies
ⓘ
biotech company building ⓘ genomics company operations ⓘ |
| hasRole |
board director
ⓘ
company founder ⓘ operating executive ⓘ |
| industry |
biotechnology
ⓘ
genomics ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Illumina ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | John Stuelpnagel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | commercialization of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies at Illumina ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Operating Officer of Illumina
ⓘ
Executive Vice President of Illumina ⓘ |
| worksIn |
genomics industry
ⓘ
life sciences industry ⓘ |
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: John Stuelpnagel Description of subject: John Stuelpnagel is a biotechnology entrepreneur and executive best known as a co-founder of the genomics company Illumina.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.