Marc Andreessen
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Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marc Andreessen canonical | 33 |
| Andreessen | 2 |
| Marc Andreessen is a co-founder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20324 — 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: Marc Andreessen Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Marc Andreessen]
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A.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Eric Raymond
Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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D.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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E.
Dave Raggett
Dave Raggett is a British computer scientist and software engineer best known for his pioneering work on HTML and web standards within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- 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: Marc Andreessen Target entity description: Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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A.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Eric Raymond
Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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D.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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E.
Dave Raggett
Dave Raggett is a British computer scientist and software engineer best known for his pioneering work on HTML and web standards within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Marc Andreessen Description of subject: Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marc Andreessen
subject linked to:
Mosaic (web browser)
subject linked to:
New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States
subject linked to:
New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States
linked to: Marc Andreessen
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
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portrays
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Marc Andreessen
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subject linked to:
Horowitz