mojombo
E183287
mojombo is the online pseudonym of Tom Preston-Werner, a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of GitHub.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| mojombo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1611121 — 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: mojombo Context triple: [Tom Preston-Werner, pseudonym, mojombo]
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A.
.mo
.mo is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China for use on the internet.
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B.
MOZ
MOZ is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Mozambique.
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C.
M.O.
M.O. is a studio album by American rapper Nelly that showcases his blend of hip hop and pop-rap with numerous guest collaborations.
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D.
MOJ
MOJ is the abbreviated name for Japan’s Ministry of Justice, the government body responsible for legal affairs, the judiciary system, public prosecution, and immigration control.
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E.
MOIA
MOIA is a mobility services company focused on ride-pooling and urban transportation solutions, operating as a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.
- 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: mojombo Target entity description: mojombo is the online pseudonym of Tom Preston-Werner, a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of GitHub.
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A.
.mo
.mo is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China for use on the internet.
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B.
MOZ
MOZ is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Mozambique.
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C.
M.O.
M.O. is a studio album by American rapper Nelly that showcases his blend of hip hop and pop-rap with numerous guest collaborations.
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D.
MOJ
MOJ is the abbreviated name for Japan’s Ministry of Justice, the government body responsible for legal affairs, the judiciary system, public prosecution, and immigration control.
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E.
MOIA
MOIA is a mobility services company focused on ride-pooling and urban transportation solutions, operating as a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GitHub co-founder
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| blog | https://tom.preston-werner.com ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | GitHub ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Chatterbug
ⓘ
GitHub ⓘ RedwoodJS ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Tom Preston-Werner
ⓘ
Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ |
| created |
Jekyll
ⓘ
linked to:
Jekyll static site generator
|
| creator | Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-10-28 ⓘ |
| education |
attended Harvey Mudd College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvey Mudd College
|
| educationStatus | did not complete degree ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
developer tools
ⓘ
open source software ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| founded | Gravatar ⓘ |
| founder | Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ |
| githubProfile | https://github.com/mojombo ⓘ |
| githubUsername | mojombo ⓘ |
| influenced | open source collaboration practices ⓘ |
| investorIn | various technology startups ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding GitHub ⓘ |
| left | GitHub ⓘ |
| leftGitHubYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing distributed version control via GitHub ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Semantic Versioning
ⓘ
linked to:
Semantic Versioning specification
Toml configuration format ⓘ
linked to:
TOML
|
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dubuque, Iowa, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Dubuque
|
| programmingLanguageUsed |
JavaScript
ⓘ
Ruby ⓘ |
| pseudonym | mojombo ⓘ |
| realName | Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| roleAtGitHub |
CEO
ⓘ
President ⓘ |
| speaksAt | software development conferences ⓘ |
| website | https://tom.preston-werner.com ⓘ |
| workedAt | Powerset ⓘ |
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: mojombo Description of subject: mojombo is the online pseudonym of Tom Preston-Werner, a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of GitHub.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
mojombo