Daniel Robbins
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Daniel Robbins is an American software developer best known as the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daniel Robbins canonical | 1 |
| Danny Robbins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1831657 — 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: Daniel Robbins Context triple: [Gentoo Linux, originalAuthor, Daniel Robbins]
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A.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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B.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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D.
Jere Shea
Jere Shea is an American actor best known for his work in television and theater, including a prominent role in the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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E.
Ray Nicolette
Ray Nicolette is a fictional ATF agent who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novels and their film adaptations, notably portrayed by Michael Keaton in "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight."
- 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: Daniel Robbins Target entity description: Daniel Robbins is an American software developer best known as the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
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A.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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B.
Jesse K. Dubois
Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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D.
Jere Shea
Jere Shea is an American actor best known for his work in television and theater, including a prominent role in the crime drama series "City on a Hill."
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E.
Ray Nicolette
Ray Nicolette is a fictional ATF agent who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novels and their film adaptations, notably portrayed by Michael Keaton in "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
person ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
Linux community
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gentoo Foundation
ⓘ
Gentoo community ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Portage package management system
ⓘ
linked to:
Portage package manager
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developerOf | Gentoo Linux ⓘ |
| employer |
Gentoo project
ⓘ
linked to:
Gentoo Linux
|
| fieldOfWork |
Linux distributions
ⓘ
free software ⓘ operating systems ⓘ |
| genre | system software ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkOn |
Gentoo Linux
ⓘ
Linux distribution design ⓘ source-based distributions ⓘ |
| hasRole |
architect of Gentoo Portage system
ⓘ
project leader of Gentoo Linux ⓘ |
| influenced | source-based Linux distributions ⓘ |
| influencedBy | free software movement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
chief architect of Gentoo Linux
ⓘ
founding Gentoo Linux ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
creating a highly customizable Linux distribution
ⓘ
popularizing source-based package management in Linux distributions ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gentoo Linux ⓘ |
| occupation | software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief architect of Gentoo Linux ⓘ |
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: Daniel Robbins Description of subject: Daniel Robbins is an American software developer best known as the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Daniel Robbins