David Kennedy
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cybersecurity company
cybersecurity expert
penetration tester
penetration testing tool
person
security software
David Kennedy is a prominent cybersecurity expert and penetration tester best known as the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit and founder of the security firm TrustedSec.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Kennedy canonical | 5 |
| Dave Kennedy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248881 — 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 Kennedy Context triple: [Social-Engineer Toolkit, createdBy, David Kennedy]
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A.
David Kennedy
David Kennedy was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, known as one of Robert F. Kennedy’s sons and part of a major American political dynasty.
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B.
David Kennedy
David Kennedy is a music producer known for his work on influential hip-hop projects such as Mos Def’s acclaimed album "Black on Both Sides."
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C.
Christopher G. Kennedy
Christopher G. Kennedy is an American businessman and member of the Kennedy political family, known for his work in real estate and public service in Illinois.
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D.
Arthur Edward Kennedy
Arthur Edward Kennedy was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as governor in several colonies across the British Empire.
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E.
David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is an American historian and Stanford University professor renowned for his influential works on U.S. history, particularly the Great Depression and World War II.
- 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 Kennedy Target entity description: David Kennedy is a prominent cybersecurity expert and penetration tester best known as the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit and founder of the security firm TrustedSec.
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A.
David Kennedy
David Kennedy was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, known as one of Robert F. Kennedy’s sons and part of a major American political dynasty.
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B.
David Kennedy
David Kennedy is a music producer known for his work on influential hip-hop projects such as Mos Def’s acclaimed album "Black on Both Sides."
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C.
Christopher G. Kennedy
Christopher G. Kennedy is an American businessman and member of the Kennedy political family, known for his work in real estate and public service in Illinois.
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D.
Arthur Edward Kennedy
Arthur Edward Kennedy was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as governor in several colonies across the British Empire.
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E.
David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is an American historian and Stanford University professor renowned for his influential works on U.S. history, particularly the Great Depression and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cybersecurity company
ⓘ
cybersecurity expert ⓘ penetration tester ⓘ penetration testing tool ⓘ person ⓘ security software ⓘ |
| created | Social-Engineer Toolkit ⓘ |
| field |
cybersecurity
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information security ⓘ penetration testing ⓘ social engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
penetration testing
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security consulting ⓘ social engineering attacks ⓘ |
| founded | TrustedSec ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
incident response
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offensive security ⓘ red teaming ⓘ security program development ⓘ threat modeling ⓘ vulnerability assessment ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole |
creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit
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founder of TrustedSec ⓘ |
| industry | information security ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Social-Engineer Toolkit
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TrustedSec ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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security consultant ⓘ |
| usedFor |
penetration testing
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security assessments ⓘ |
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 Kennedy Description of subject: David Kennedy is a prominent cybersecurity expert and penetration tester best known as the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit and founder of the security firm TrustedSec.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.