Riccardo Zacconi
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Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of King, the gaming company behind the hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga.
All labels observed (1)
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| Riccardo Zacconi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2432347 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Riccardo Zacconi Context triple: [King Digital Entertainment, foundedBy, Riccardo Zacconi]
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Filippo Barigioni
Filippo Barigioni was an Italian Baroque architect and sculptor active in Rome in the early 18th century, known for his work on churches, fountains, and urban spaces.
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B.
Paolo Riccio
Paolo Riccio was a 16th-century Jewish convert to Christianity, scholar, and theologian known for his influential writings that integrated Christian theology with Kabbalistic thought.
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C.
Franco Arcalli
Franco Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter known for his innovative work on influential European art films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Guido Quaroni
Guido Quaroni is an Italian-born Pixar technical director and voice actor best known for voicing the character Guido in the animated film "Cars."
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Pietro Gazzera
Pietro Gazzera was an Italian general and colonial governor best known for his leadership of Italian forces in East Africa during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Riccardo Zacconi Target entity description: Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of King, the gaming company behind the hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga.
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A.
Filippo Barigioni
Filippo Barigioni was an Italian Baroque architect and sculptor active in Rome in the early 18th century, known for his work on churches, fountains, and urban spaces.
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B.
Paolo Riccio
Paolo Riccio was a 16th-century Jewish convert to Christianity, scholar, and theologian known for his influential writings that integrated Christian theology with Kabbalistic thought.
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C.
Franco Arcalli
Franco Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter known for his innovative work on influential European art films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Guido Quaroni
Guido Quaroni is an Italian-born Pixar technical director and voice actor best known for voicing the character Guido in the animated film "Cars."
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E.
Pietro Gazzera
Pietro Gazzera was an Italian general and colonial governor best known for his leadership of Italian forces in East Africa during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| afterAcquisitionBy | Activision Blizzard ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Activision Blizzard ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | King ⓘ |
| businessSector |
casual games
ⓘ
social games ⓘ |
| coFounded | King ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| educatedAt | LUISS Guido Carli ⓘ |
| employer | King ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | economics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt |
entrepreneurship events
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technology conferences ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of King
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executive chairman of King ⓘ |
| industry |
mobile gaming industry
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video game industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Candy Crush Saga
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linked to:
Candy Crush
being CEO of King ⓘ co-founding King ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
growing King into a leading mobile games company
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leading King during global success of Candy Crush Saga ⓘ |
| notableFor |
building a data-driven gaming business model
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freemium monetization strategy in mobile games ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Candy Crush Saga
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linked to:
Candy Crush
|
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld | CEO of King ⓘ |
| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| workedAt |
Bain & Company
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Boston Consulting Group ⓘ Spray ⓘ uDate ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Riccardo Zacconi Description of subject: Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of King, the gaming company behind the hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.