John Lattner
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John Lattner was a standout halfback for the University of Notre Dame who won the 1953 Heisman Trophy and later played in the NFL.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Lattner canonical | 1 |
| Lattner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2521873 — 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: John Lattner Context triple: [Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, HeismanTrophyWinner, John Lattner]
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A.
Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is a software engineer best known for creating the LLVM compiler infrastructure and leading the development of Apple’s Swift programming language.
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B.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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C.
Rob Pike
Rob Pike is a Canadian software engineer and author best known as a co-creator of the Go programming language and for his influential work at Bell Labs and Google.
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D.
Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld is a pioneering software engineer best known as a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and a co-creator of the Mac’s graphical user interface.
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E.
Skip Hinnant
Skip Hinnant is an American actor and voice actor best known for his work on the children's television show "The Electric Company" and various animated productions.
- 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: John Lattner Target entity description: John Lattner was a standout halfback for the University of Notre Dame who won the 1953 Heisman Trophy and later played in the NFL.
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A.
Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is a software engineer best known for creating the LLVM compiler infrastructure and leading the development of Apple’s Swift programming language.
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B.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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C.
Rob Pike
Rob Pike is a Canadian software engineer and author best known as a co-creator of the Go programming language and for his influential work at Bell Labs and Google.
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D.
Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld is a pioneering software engineer best known as a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and a co-creator of the Mac’s graphical user interface.
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E.
Skip Hinnant
Skip Hinnant is an American actor and voice actor best known for his work on the children's television show "The Electric Company" and various animated productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: John Lattner Description of subject: John Lattner was a standout halfback for the University of Notre Dame who won the 1953 Heisman Trophy and later played in the NFL.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Lattner