Steve Coast
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Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur and software developer best known for founding the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Coast canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10827884 — 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: Steve Coast Context triple: [OpenStreetMap, creator, Steve Coast]
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A.
Steve Speirs
Steve Speirs is a Welsh character actor known for his comedic and supporting roles in British film and television.
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B.
Steve Lunt
Steve Lunt is a music producer and A&R executive best known for his work on major pop hits in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including projects with artists like Britney Spears.
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C.
Steve Hams
Steve Hams is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the American Basketball League.
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D.
Scott Gorham
Scott Gorham is an American guitarist best known for his long tenure with the hard rock band Thin Lizzy and later work with its successor projects.
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E.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
- 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: Steve Coast Target entity description: Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur and software developer best known for founding the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap.
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A.
Steve Speirs
Steve Speirs is a Welsh character actor known for his comedic and supporting roles in British film and television.
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B.
Steve Lunt
Steve Lunt is a music producer and A&R executive best known for his work on major pop hits in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including projects with artists like Britney Spears.
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C.
Steve Hams
Steve Hams is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the American Basketball League.
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D.
Scott Gorham
Scott Gorham is an American guitarist best known for his long tenure with the hard rock band Thin Lizzy and later work with its successor projects.
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E.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| advocates |
crowdsourced mapping
ⓘ
open geospatial data ⓘ |
| appearsIn | documentaries about OpenStreetMap ⓘ |
| basedIn | Colorado ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| birthYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| coFounded | CloudMade ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University College London ⓘ |
| employer |
Microsoft
ⓘ
Telenav ⓘ What3words ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
collaborative mapping
ⓘ
geographic information systems ⓘ open data ⓘ |
| founded | OpenStreetMap ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| githubAccount | https://github.com/scoast ⓘ |
| hasBlog | https://stevecoast.com ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
aviation
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geography ⓘ open source software ⓘ startups ⓘ |
| hasRole |
OpenStreetMap community leader
ⓘ
technology advisor ⓘ |
| hasWritten | blog posts on mapping and open data ⓘ |
| influenced |
crowdsourced geographic data projects
ⓘ
open mapping movement ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding OpenStreetMap ⓘ |
| memberOf | OpenStreetMap Foundation ⓘ |
| name | Steve Coast ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableProject | CloudMade mapping platform ⓘ |
| notableWork |
OpenStreetMap project
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStreetMap
|
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Principal Architect Open Data at Microsoft ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
| twitterAccount | https://twitter.com/SteveC ⓘ |
| workedOn | navigation and mapping technologies ⓘ |
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: Steve Coast Description of subject: Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur and software developer best known for founding the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.