Kapor
E34845
Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kapor canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T230459 — 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: Kapor Context triple: [Mitchell Kapor, familyName, Kapor]
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A.
Kamen
Kamen is a surname most prominently associated with American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, known for creating the Segway and numerous medical devices.
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B.
Kawki
Kawki is an indigenous Andean language closely related to Aymara and spoken by a small number of people in Peru.
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C.
Bauta
Bauta is a municipality in western Cuba known for its proximity to Havana and its mix of rural communities and small urban centers.
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D.
Kalpeni
Kalpeni is a coral atoll and inhabited island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian Sea, known for its lagoon, beaches, and coconut groves.
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E.
Tenjin
Tenjin is the Shinto kami of scholarship and learning, widely revered by students seeking academic success.
- 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: Kapor Target entity description: Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
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A.
Kamen
Kamen is a surname most prominently associated with American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, known for creating the Segway and numerous medical devices.
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B.
Kawki
Kawki is an indigenous Andean language closely related to Aymara and spoken by a small number of people in Peru.
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C.
Bauta
Bauta is a municipality in western Cuba known for its proximity to Havana and its mix of rural communities and small urban centers.
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D.
Kalpeni
Kalpeni is a coral atoll and inhabited island in India’s Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian Sea, known for its lagoon, beaches, and coconut groves.
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E.
Tenjin
Tenjin is the Shinto kami of scholarship and learning, widely revered by students seeking academic success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ software company ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
MIT Sloan School of Management
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Kapor ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital rights
ⓘ
personal computing ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Electronic Frontier Foundation
ⓘ
Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| givenName | Mitchell ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Kapor ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lotus 1-2-3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software designer ⓘ |
| productOrService | Lotus 1-2-3 ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mitchell Kapor ⓘ |
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: Kapor Description of subject: Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.