Karp
E121307
Karp is a surname most notably associated with David Karp, the founder of the microblogging platform Tumblr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karp canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1056193 — 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: Karp Context triple: [David Karp, familyName, Karp]
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A.
Kukarka
Kukarka is a small Russian locality historically known as the birthplace of Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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B.
Karns
Karns is an unincorporated suburban community in Knox County, Tennessee, situated within the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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C.
Kip
Kip is a young Sikh British-Indian army sapper in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "The English Patient," whose expertise in bomb disposal and complex relationship with the other characters explore themes of war, identity, and colonialism.
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D.
Kapor
Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
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E.
Klecko
Klecko is the surname of former American football defensive lineman Joe Klecko, best known for his standout career with the New York Jets as part of the “New York Sack Exchange.”
- 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: Karp Target entity description: Karp is a surname most notably associated with David Karp, the founder of the microblogging platform Tumblr.
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A.
Kukarka
Kukarka is a small Russian locality historically known as the birthplace of Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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B.
Karns
Karns is an unincorporated suburban community in Knox County, Tennessee, situated within the Knoxville metropolitan area.
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C.
Kip
Kip is a young Sikh British-Indian army sapper in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "The English Patient," whose expertise in bomb disposal and complex relationship with the other characters explore themes of war, identity, and colonialism.
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D.
Kapor
Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
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E.
Klecko
Klecko is the surname of former American football defensive lineman Joe Klecko, best known for his standout career with the New York Jets as part of the “New York Sack Exchange.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ microblogging platform ⓘ social networking service ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Turing Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1986-07-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| founded | Tumblr ⓘ |
| founder | David Karp ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Polish ⓘ Russian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Bob Karp
ⓘ
David Karp ⓘ Harvey Karp ⓘ Ivan Karp ⓘ Richard M. Karp ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Karp
Walter Karp ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Karpf
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Karpov ⓘ
linked to:
Anatoly Karpov
|
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Karp’s 21 NP-complete problems
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founding Tumblr ⓘ |
| name | David Karp ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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American ⓘ American ⓘ American ⓘ American ⓘ |
| occupation |
art dealer
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author ⓘ cartoonist ⓘ computer programmer ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ gallerist ⓘ historian ⓘ journalist ⓘ pediatrician ⓘ |
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: Karp Description of subject: Karp is a surname most notably associated with David Karp, the founder of the microblogging platform Tumblr.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.