Sam Stephenson
E446459
Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Stephenson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4442981 — 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: Sam Stephenson Context triple: [rbenv, createdBy, Sam Stephenson]
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
William Stephens
William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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C.
Samuel Shellabarger
Samuel Shellabarger was an American novelist and historian best known for his popular mid-20th-century historical adventure novels.
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D.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
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E.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens was a distinguished British stage and film actor, known for his work with the Royal National Theatre and roles in classic Shakespearean productions.
- 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: Sam Stephenson Target entity description: Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
William Stephens
William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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C.
Samuel Shellabarger
Samuel Shellabarger was an American novelist and historian best known for his popular mid-20th-century historical adventure novels.
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D.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens is the anglicized name of Robert Estienne, a renowned 16th-century French printer and classical scholar noted for his critical editions of the Bible and Latin texts.
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E.
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens was a distinguished British stage and film actor, known for his work with the Royal National Theatre and roles in classic Shakespearean productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open-source contributor
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| contributedTo | open-source projects ⓘ |
| field |
open-source software
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software development ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ruby version management tools
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creating rbenv ⓘ |
| notableWork | rbenv ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Ruby ⓘ |
| softwareDevelopmentFocus |
developer tooling
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version management tools ⓘ |
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: Sam Stephenson Description of subject: Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.