Tom Preston-Werner
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Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Preston-Werner canonical | 11 |
| Preston-Werner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T264638 — 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: Tom Preston-Werner Context triple: [GitHub, foundedBy, Tom Preston-Werner]
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A.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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B.
Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing significantly to agile software development practices.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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E.
Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
- 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: Tom Preston-Werner Target entity description: Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.
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A.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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B.
Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing significantly to agile software development practices.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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E.
Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
JavaScript ecosystem
ⓘ
Ruby programming language community ⓘ open-source community ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Chatterbug ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Chatterbug
ⓘ
GitHub ⓘ Gravatar ⓘ RedwoodJS ⓘ Tidelift (early backer and co-founder-level role) ⓘ
linked to:
Kapor Capital
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created |
Jekyll
ⓘ
linked to:
Jekyll static site generator
RedwoodJS framework ⓘ
linked to:
RedwoodJS
Semantic Versioning specification ⓘ |
| employer |
Chatterbug
ⓘ
GitHub ⓘ |
| familyName |
Preston-Werner
ⓘ
linked to:
Tom Preston-Werner
|
| fieldOfWork |
developer tools
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasGitHubProfile | https://github.com/mojombo ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://tom.preston-werner.com ⓘ |
| influenced |
static site generation ecosystem
ⓘ
versioning practices in software development ⓘ |
| investorIn | developer tooling startups ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding GitHub ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Git-based social coding
ⓘ
Semantic Versioning ⓘ
linked to:
Semantic Versioning specification
|
| notableProject |
GitHub
ⓘ
Jekyll ⓘ
linked to:
Jekyll static site generator
RedwoodJS ⓘ Semantic Versioning ⓘ
linked to:
Semantic Versioning specification
|
| notablePublication |
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 specification
ⓘ
linked to:
Semantic Versioning specification
|
| notableWork | Jekyll static site generator ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of GitHub
ⓘ
President of GitHub ⓘ |
| pseudonym | mojombo ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| spouse | Theresa Preston-Werner ⓘ |
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: Tom Preston-Werner Description of subject: Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Preston-Werner