Raymond D. Zinn
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Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
All labels observed (1)
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| Raymond D. Zinn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10068346 — 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: Raymond D. Zinn Context triple: [Robert N. Noyce Award, hasAwarded, Raymond D. Zinn]
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A.
Walter H. Zinn
Walter H. Zinn was a pioneering nuclear physicist and reactor designer who played a key role in the development of the first nuclear reactors and the early U.S. nuclear program.
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B.
Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle is an American historian and editor known for his work on radical politics, labor history, and comics, often exploring the intersection of leftist movements and popular culture.
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C.
John W. Blum
John W. Blum is a screenwriter best known for his work on the comedy film "The Man from the Diners' Club."
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D.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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E.
Stephen Schlesinger
Stephen Schlesinger is an American historian, foreign policy scholar, and author known for his influential works on U.S. interventionism and international affairs.
- 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: Raymond D. Zinn Target entity description: Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
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A.
Walter H. Zinn
Walter H. Zinn was a pioneering nuclear physicist and reactor designer who played a key role in the development of the first nuclear reactors and the early U.S. nuclear program.
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B.
Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle is an American historian and editor known for his work on radical politics, labor history, and comics, often exploring the intersection of leftist movements and popular culture.
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C.
John W. Blum
John W. Blum is a screenwriter best known for his work on the comedy film "The Man from the Diners' Club."
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D.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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E.
Stephen Schlesinger
Stephen Schlesinger is an American historian, foreign policy scholar, and author known for his influential works on U.S. interventionism and international affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ podcast host ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction
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various entrepreneurship and leadership awards ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Jose area ⓘ |
| coFounded | Micrel ⓘ |
| education |
Brigham Young University
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San Jose State University ⓘ |
| employer | Micrel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business leadership
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entrepreneurship ⓘ semiconductor technology ⓘ |
| founded | Tough Things First, Inc. ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
advising startups
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public speaking on leadership ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
focus on ethics in business
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long-term orientation in company building ⓘ |
| hasPodcast | Tough Things First Podcast ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mentor to entrepreneurs
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podcast host of Tough Things First ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://toughthingsfirst.com ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
business leadership books
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entrepreneurship books ⓘ |
| industry | semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bootstrapping Micrel without venture capital
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co-founding Micrel ⓘ emphasis on profitability and frugality in management ⓘ longest-serving CEO of a publicly traded semiconductor company in Silicon Valley ⓘ people-first leadership philosophy ⓘ serving as CEO of Micrel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tough Things First
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Zen of Zinn ⓘ Zen of Zinn 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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chief executive officer ⓘ engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Micrel
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Chief Executive Officer of Micrel ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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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: Raymond D. Zinn Description of subject: Raymond D. Zinn is a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of semiconductor company Micrel, recognized for his leadership and contributions to the semiconductor industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.