Bob Marshall
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Bob Marshall was a technology entrepreneur best known for co-founding Apollo Computer, a pioneering workstation manufacturer in the early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Marshall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8413642 — 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: Bob Marshall Context triple: [Apollo Computer, foundedBy, Bob Marshall]
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A.
Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall was an American forester, writer, and pioneering wilderness activist who played a key role in the early conservation movement in the United States.
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B.
Robert Marshall
Robert Marshall was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister who became a key leader in the formation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) movement.
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C.
Marc Gilpin
Marc Gilpin was an American child actor best known for his role in the film "Jaws 2" and for being the younger brother of actress Peri Gilpin.
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D.
J. A. C. Redford
J. A. C. Redford is an American composer and orchestrator known for his work in film, television, and concert music.
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E.
Don Johnston
Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
- 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: Bob Marshall Target entity description: Bob Marshall was a technology entrepreneur best known for co-founding Apollo Computer, a pioneering workstation manufacturer in the early 1980s.
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A.
Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall was an American forester, writer, and pioneering wilderness activist who played a key role in the early conservation movement in the United States.
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B.
Robert Marshall
Robert Marshall was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister who became a key leader in the formation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) movement.
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C.
Marc Gilpin
Marc Gilpin was an American child actor best known for his role in the film "Jaws 2" and for being the younger brother of actress Peri Gilpin.
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D.
J. A. C. Redford
J. A. C. Redford is an American composer and orchestrator known for his work in film, television, and concert music.
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E.
Don Johnston
Don Johnston is the jaded, middle-aged former Don Juan portrayed by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s film "Broken Flowers," who embarks on a reluctant road trip to revisit past lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer company
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person ⓘ |
| coFounded | Apollo Computer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer industry
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workstation computers ⓘ |
| industry | computer hardware ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Apollo Computer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering networked engineering workstations in the early 1980s
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pioneering workstation manufacturer in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| occupation | technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| productType | workstations ⓘ |
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: Bob Marshall Description of subject: Bob Marshall was a technology entrepreneur best known for co-founding Apollo Computer, a pioneering workstation manufacturer in the early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.