Lew Cirne
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Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lew Cirne canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6231246 — 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: Lew Cirne Context triple: [New Relic, foundedBy, Lew Cirne]
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
Pete Czernin
Pete Czernin is a British film and television producer and co-founder of the production company Blueprint Pictures, known for backing acclaimed UK and international projects.
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C.
Abe Reles
Abe Reles was a notorious Brooklyn mobster and hitman who became infamous as a key government informant against the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate in the 1940s.
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D.
James Kudelka
James Kudelka is a prominent Canadian choreographer and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, known for his innovative and often psychologically complex reinterpretations of classical and contemporary works.
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E.
Clyde Klotz
Clyde Klotz is a Canadian television art director and production designer best known for his work on series such as "The X-Files."
- 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: Lew Cirne Target entity description: Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
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A.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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B.
Pete Czernin
Pete Czernin is a British film and television producer and co-founder of the production company Blueprint Pictures, known for backing acclaimed UK and international projects.
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C.
Abe Reles
Abe Reles was a notorious Brooklyn mobster and hitman who became infamous as a key government informant against the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate in the 1940s.
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D.
James Kudelka
James Kudelka is a prominent Canadian choreographer and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, known for his innovative and often psychologically complex reinterpretations of classical and contemporary works.
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E.
Clyde Klotz
Clyde Klotz is a Canadian television art director and production designer best known for his work on series such as "The X-Files."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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software entrepreneur ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| boardMembership | New Relic board of directors ⓘ |
| degree | Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Dartmouth College ⓘ |
| field |
application performance monitoring
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software ⓘ |
| founded |
New Relic in 2008
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linked to:
New Relic
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| founderOf | New Relic ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
cloud monitoring
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developer tools ⓘ software performance ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalksAt | technology conferences ⓘ |
| industry |
observability
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software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding New Relic
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pioneering application performance monitoring ⓘ |
| name | Lew Cirne ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
created early Java application performance management tools at Wily Technology
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helped popularize SaaS-based application performance monitoring ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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software engineer ⓘ |
| previouslyFounded | Wily Technology ⓘ |
| roleAtNewRelic |
CEO
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Chief Product Officer ⓘ founder ⓘ |
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: Lew Cirne Description of subject: Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.