Sean Parker
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Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Parker canonical | 16 |
| tech entrepreneur Sean Parker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T804807 — 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: Sean Parker Context triple: [Luke Nosek, associatedWith, Sean Parker]
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A.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
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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D.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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E.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
- 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: Sean Parker Target entity description: Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook.
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A.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
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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D.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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E.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Spotify ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Airtime
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Causes ⓘ Napster ⓘ Plaxo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-12-03 ⓘ |
| earlyInvestorIn |
Airbnb
ⓘ
Facebook ⓘ Path ⓘ Spotify ⓘ Yammer ⓘ |
| education | Chantilly High School ⓘ |
| employer |
Facebook
ⓘ
Founders Fund ⓘ Napster ⓘ Plaxo ⓘ |
| familyName | Parker ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
philanthropy
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded |
Brigade Media
ⓘ
Parker Foundation ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter with Alexandra Lenas
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son with Alexandra Lenas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Napster
ⓘ
serving as first president of Facebook ⓘ |
| memberOf | Founders Fund ⓘ |
| name | Sean Parker ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorth | billionaire ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of Napster peer-to-peer file sharing service
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growth and early strategy of Facebook ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
investor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
cancer immunotherapy
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medical research ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Herndon, Virginia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Herndon
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| portrayedBy | Justin Timberlake ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Facebook ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Alexandra Lenas ⓘ |
| subjectOf | portrayal in film The Social Network ⓘ |
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: Sean Parker Description of subject: Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sean Parker