David Knies
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David Knies is a video game industry figure best known as a co-founder of the game development studio Treyarch, which created several major Call of Duty titles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Knies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2432256 — 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: David Knies Context triple: [Treyarch, foundedBy, David Knies]
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Brent Kutzle
Brent Kutzle is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the bassist and cellist for the band OneRepublic and for his work on various pop and rock records.
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C.
Bill Neukom
Bill Neukom is an American lawyer and philanthropist best known as Microsoft’s former chief legal officer and a former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants.
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D.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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E.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
- 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: David Knies Target entity description: David Knies is a video game industry figure best known as a co-founder of the game development studio Treyarch, which created several major Call of Duty titles.
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Brent Kutzle
Brent Kutzle is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the bassist and cellist for the band OneRepublic and for his work on various pop and rock records.
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C.
Bill Neukom
Bill Neukom is an American lawyer and philanthropist best known as Microsoft’s former chief legal officer and a former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants.
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D.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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E.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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video game development studio ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Treyarch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| developerOf |
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
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Call of Duty 3 ⓘ Call of Duty: Black Ops ⓘ Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 ⓘ Call of Duty: Black Ops II ⓘ Call of Duty: Black Ops III ⓘ Call of Duty: World at War ⓘ |
| industry |
video game industry
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video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Call of Duty series
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linked to:
Call of Duty
co-founding Treyarch ⓘ |
| name | David Knies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Call of Duty series (via Treyarch)
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linked to:
Call of Duty
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| occupation |
video game industry figure
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video game producer ⓘ |
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: David Knies Description of subject: David Knies is a video game industry figure best known as a co-founder of the game development studio Treyarch, which created several major Call of Duty titles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.