Dennis Coleman
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Dennis Coleman is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Coleman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9932379 — 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: Dennis Coleman Context triple: [Symantec, foundedBy, Dennis Coleman]
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A.
John Colclough
John Colclough was an Irish leader and rebel commander associated with the 1798 Rebellion, notably involved in the fighting at the Battle of New Ross.
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B.
Allen Collins
Allen Collins was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and co-writer of many of their classic songs.
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C.
Bill Curbishley
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
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D.
Eddie Colman
Eddie Colman was an English footballer and talented young midfielder for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" who died tragically in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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E.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
- 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: Dennis Coleman Target entity description: Dennis Coleman is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec.
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A.
John Colclough
John Colclough was an Irish leader and rebel commander associated with the 1798 Rebellion, notably involved in the fighting at the Battle of New Ross.
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B.
Allen Collins
Allen Collins was an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd and co-writer of many of their classic songs.
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C.
Bill Curbishley
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
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D.
Eddie Colman
Eddie Colman was an English footballer and talented young midfielder for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" who died tragically in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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E.
Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is the hard-drinking, disillusioned American journalist who serves as the protagonist and narrator of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel (and its film adaptation) "The Rum Diary."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| coFounded | Symantec ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cybersecurity
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software industry ⓘ |
| hasCoFounder | Dennis Coleman ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Symantec ⓘ |
| industry |
computer security
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software ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Symantec ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | Symantec ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Dennis Coleman Description of subject: Dennis Coleman is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cybersecurity and software company Symantec.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dennis Coleman