notch
E278206
entrepreneur
human
online pseudonym
sandbox video game
video game company
video game designer
video game programmer
"notch" is the online alias of Markus Persson, the Swedish video game programmer best known as the original creator of Minecraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| notch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2561621 — 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: notch Context triple: [Markus Persson, hasOnlineHandle, notch]
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A.
Nut
Nut is the ancient Egyptian sky goddess, often depicted arching over the earth and associated with the heavens, stars, and the cyclical rebirth of the sun.
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B.
Nottz
Nottz is an American hip-hop producer known for his soulful, sample-based beats and work with artists such as Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, and Snoop Dogg.
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C.
Notsi
Notsi is an Oceanic language spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Meso-Melanesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
NOK
NOK is the official currency code for the Norwegian krone, the national currency of Norway.
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E.
Nutuk
Nutuk is a monumental speech and historical account delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1927, detailing the Turkish War of Independence and the founding of the Republic of Turkey.
- 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: notch Target entity description: "notch" is the online alias of Markus Persson, the Swedish video game programmer best known as the original creator of Minecraft.
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A.
Nut
Nut is the ancient Egyptian sky goddess, often depicted arching over the earth and associated with the heavens, stars, and the cyclical rebirth of the sun.
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B.
Nottz
Nottz is an American hip-hop producer known for his soulful, sample-based beats and work with artists such as Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, and Snoop Dogg.
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C.
Notsi
Notsi is an Oceanic language spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea, belonging to the Meso-Melanesian branch of the Austronesian language family.
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D.
NOK
NOK is the official currency code for the Norwegian krone, the national currency of Norway.
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E.
Nutuk
Nutuk is a monumental speech and historical account delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1927, detailing the Turkish War of Independence and the founding of the Republic of Turkey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ online pseudonym ⓘ sandbox video game ⓘ video game company ⓘ video game designer ⓘ video game programmer ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Notch ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Special Award
ⓘ
Golden Joystick Awards ⓘ
linked to:
Golden Joystick Awards 2012
|
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Sweden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Minecraft ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-06-01 ⓘ |
| employer |
Mojang
ⓘ
linked to:
Mojang Studios
|
| fieldOfWork |
game design
ⓘ
game programming ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Mojang
ⓘ
linked to:
Mojang Studios
|
| gameGenreWorkedOn |
sandbox
ⓘ
survival ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry | video game industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Swedish ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | developing the first version of Minecraft ⓘ |
| notableEvent | sold Mojang and Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Minecraft ⓘ |
| occupation |
game developer
ⓘ
programmer ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| originalAuthor | Markus Persson ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stockholm ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of Mojang ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed | Java ⓘ |
| pseudonym |
notch
ⓘ
linked to:
Notch
|
| realName | Markus Persson ⓘ |
| residence | Stockholm ⓘ |
| socialMedia | https://twitter.com/notch ⓘ |
| usedBy | Markus Persson ⓘ |
| website | https://notch.net/ ⓘ |
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: notch Description of subject: "notch" is the online alias of Markus Persson, the Swedish video game programmer best known as the original creator of Minecraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.