David Robson
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David Robson is a computer scientist and co-author known for his work with Adele Goldberg on the Smalltalk programming language and object-oriented programming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Robson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6880001 — 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: David Robson Context triple: [Adele Goldberg, coAuthorWith, David Robson]
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A.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist, writer, and skeptic best known for her work on consciousness, memes, and the scientific investigation of paranormal claims.
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B.
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan is an American attorney and businessman best known as the chairman and CEO of the Cleveland Guardians Major League Baseball franchise.
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C.
Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
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D.
Alex Hutchinson
Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
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E.
Alan Pariser
Alan Pariser is a music industry figure best known as a co-founder and collaborator of prominent record producer and manager Lou Adler.
- 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: David Robson Target entity description: David Robson is a computer scientist and co-author known for his work with Adele Goldberg on the Smalltalk programming language and object-oriented programming.
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A.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist, writer, and skeptic best known for her work on consciousness, memes, and the scientific investigation of paranormal claims.
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B.
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan is an American attorney and businessman best known as the chairman and CEO of the Cleveland Guardians Major League Baseball franchise.
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C.
Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American science journalist and author known for her engaging, accessible explorations of biology and science in popular books and articles.
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D.
Alex Hutchinson
Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
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E.
Alan Pariser
Alan Pariser is a music industry figure best known as a co-founder and collaborator of prominent record producer and manager Lou Adler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | computer scientist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Smalltalk programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Smalltalk
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| coAuthorWith | Adele Goldberg ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Smalltalk programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Smalltalk
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
object-oriented programming ⓘ programming languages ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
work on object-oriented programming
ⓘ
work on the Smalltalk programming language ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Adele Goldberg ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ |
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: David Robson Description of subject: David Robson is a computer scientist and co-author known for his work with Adele Goldberg on the Smalltalk programming language and object-oriented programming.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.