David Fox
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David Fox is a game designer and programmer best known for his work at Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts), including co-creating the influential adventure game Maniac Mansion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Fox canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8561936 — 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 Fox Context triple: [Maniac Mansion, programmer, David Fox]
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A.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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B.
Gregory Reeves
Gregory Reeves is the introspective, spiritually searching protagonist of Isabel Allende’s novel "The Infinite Plan," whose life story explores identity, trauma, and the pursuit of meaning in mid-20th-century America.
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C.
David Naughton
David Naughton is an American actor and singer best known for his lead role in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London" and for his work in 1970s and 1980s film and television.
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D.
Richard Gant
Richard Gant is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or tough-minded figures.
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E.
Dana Fox
Dana Fox is an American screenwriter and producer known for her work on romantic comedies and major studio films, including co-writing Disney’s live-action film "Cruella."
- 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 Fox Target entity description: David Fox is a game designer and programmer best known for his work at Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts), including co-creating the influential adventure game Maniac Mansion.
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A.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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B.
Gregory Reeves
Gregory Reeves is the introspective, spiritually searching protagonist of Isabel Allende’s novel "The Infinite Plan," whose life story explores identity, trauma, and the pursuit of meaning in mid-20th-century America.
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C.
David Naughton
David Naughton is an American actor and singer best known for his lead role in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London" and for his work in 1970s and 1980s film and television.
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D.
Richard Gant
Richard Gant is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or tough-minded figures.
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E.
Dana Fox
Dana Fox is an American screenwriter and producer known for her work on romantic comedies and major studio films, including co-writing Disney’s live-action film "Cruella."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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video game ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| coCreated | Maniac Mansion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| developer |
Lucasfilm Games
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linked to:
LucasArts
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| employer |
LucasArts
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Lucasfilm Games ⓘ
linked to:
LucasArts
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| fieldOfWork |
adventure games
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video games ⓘ |
| genre | graphic adventure game ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | graphic adventure games ⓘ |
| industry | video game industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating the adventure game Maniac Mansion
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work at LucasArts ⓘ work at Lucasfilm Games ⓘ |
| notableEmployer |
LucasArts
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Lucasfilm Games ⓘ
linked to:
LucasArts
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| notableRole |
game designer at Lucasfilm Games
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programmer at Lucasfilm Games ⓘ |
| notableWork | Maniac Mansion ⓘ |
| occupation |
game designer
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programmer ⓘ |
| publisher |
Lucasfilm Games
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linked to:
LucasArts
|
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 Fox Description of subject: David Fox is a game designer and programmer best known for his work at Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts), including co-creating the influential adventure game Maniac Mansion.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.