Gary Wolf
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Gary Wolf is an American writer and journalist best known as the co-founder of the Quantified Self movement and for his work in Wired magazine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Wolf canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6760959 — 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: Gary Wolf Context triple: [Wolf, hasNotableBearer, Gary Wolf]
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A.
Gary K. Wolf
Gary K. Wolf is an American author best known for creating the character Roger Rabbit and writing the novel that inspired the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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B.
David Pescovitz
David Pescovitz is a journalist and media innovator known for his work in technology, science, and culture, including his longtime role helping shape the influential online magazine Boing Boing.
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C.
Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor best known for his work on high-profile action movies such as The Terminator, Predator 2, and Rambo: First Blood Part II.
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D.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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E.
Jeremy Wolfenden
Jeremy Wolfenden was a brilliant yet troubled British journalist, spy, and intellectual of the mid-20th century whose short, tumultuous life became emblematic of wasted talent and Cold War intrigue.
- 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: Gary Wolf Target entity description: Gary Wolf is an American writer and journalist best known as the co-founder of the Quantified Self movement and for his work in Wired magazine.
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A.
Gary K. Wolf
Gary K. Wolf is an American author best known for creating the character Roger Rabbit and writing the novel that inspired the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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B.
David Pescovitz
David Pescovitz is a journalist and media innovator known for his work in technology, science, and culture, including his longtime role helping shape the influential online magazine Boing Boing.
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C.
Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor best known for his work on high-profile action movies such as The Terminator, Predator 2, and Rambo: First Blood Part II.
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D.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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E.
Jeremy Wolfenden
Jeremy Wolfenden was a brilliant yet troubled British journalist, spy, and intellectual of the mid-20th century whose short, tumultuous life became emblematic of wasted talent and Cold War intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
co-founder
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community ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ movement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
lifelogging
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personal informatics ⓘ self-quantification ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| coFounded | Quantified Self ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Wired
ⓘ
linked to:
Wired magazine
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| fieldOfWork |
lifelogging
ⓘ
personal analytics ⓘ science and technology ⓘ self-tracking ⓘ self-tracking ⓘ technology journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
ⓘ
science journalism ⓘ technology writing ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt |
Quantified Self conferences
ⓘ
TED ⓘ
linked to:
TED conferences
|
| hasRole |
columnist
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conference organizer ⓘ editor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the Quantified Self movement
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feature writing for Wired ⓘ popularizing self-tracking culture ⓘ |
| notablePublication |
Wired
ⓘ
linked to:
Wired magazine
|
| notableWork |
Wired magazine articles
ⓘ
“The Data-Driven Life” ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
behavior change
ⓘ
data and measurement ⓘ digital culture ⓘ personal technology ⓘ |
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: Gary Wolf Description of subject: Gary Wolf is an American writer and journalist best known as the co-founder of the Quantified Self movement and for his work in Wired magazine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.