Andy Konwinski
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Andy Konwinski is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Databricks and an early contributor to the Apache Spark project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andy Konwinski canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13425249 — 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: Andy Konwinski Context triple: [Databricks, foundedBy, Andy Konwinski]
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A.
Doug Mankoff
Doug Mankoff is a film and television producer known for financing and executive producing a wide range of independent and prestige projects.
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B.
Sean Blumberg
Sean Blumberg is a character portrayed by Greg Grunberg on the television series "Felicity," where he appears as one of the main character's close friends.
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C.
Ed Konetchy
Ed Konetchy was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball first baseman known for his strong defensive play and consistent hitting, who also starred in the short-lived Federal League.
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D.
Adam Felber
Adam Felber is an American writer, comedian, and radio personality best known as a longtime panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
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E.
Jerry Ostroski
Jerry Ostroski is a former American football offensive lineman best known for his NFL career with the Buffalo Bills in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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: Andy Konwinski Target entity description: Andy Konwinski is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Databricks and an early contributor to the Apache Spark project.
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A.
Doug Mankoff
Doug Mankoff is a film and television producer known for financing and executive producing a wide range of independent and prestige projects.
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B.
Sean Blumberg
Sean Blumberg is a character portrayed by Greg Grunberg on the television series "Felicity," where he appears as one of the main character's close friends.
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C.
Ed Konetchy
Ed Konetchy was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball first baseman known for his strong defensive play and consistent hitting, who also starred in the short-lived Federal League.
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D.
Adam Felber
Adam Felber is an American writer, comedian, and radio personality best known as a longtime panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
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E.
Jerry Ostroski
Jerry Ostroski is a former American football offensive lineman best known for his NFL career with the Buffalo Bills in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| associatedWith | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States tech industry ⓘ |
| coFounded | Databricks ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| earlyContributorTo | Apache Spark ⓘ |
| employer | Databricks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
big data
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cloud computing ⓘ computer science ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of Databricks
ⓘ
early Apache Spark developer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Databricks
ⓘ
early contributions to Apache Spark ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Apache Spark community ⓘ |
| notability | big data analytics industry figure ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apache Spark
ⓘ
Databricks ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| workedOn |
cluster computing systems
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large-scale data processing ⓘ |
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: Andy Konwinski Description of subject: Andy Konwinski is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Databricks and an early contributor to the Apache Spark project.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.