Mike Ball
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Mike Ball is a video game developer best known as one of the founders of the British game studio Ninja Theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Ball canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11249777 — 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: Mike Ball Context triple: [Ninja Theory, foundedBy, Mike Ball]
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A.
Martin Ball
Martin Ball is a British actor known for his work in theatre, television, and musical productions in the UK.
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B.
Andy Barlow
Andy Barlow is a British music producer and musician best known as one half of the electronic duo Lamb and for his production and mixing work with major artists including U2.
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C.
Paul Dorman
Paul Dorman is best known as the former husband of American actress, singer, and dancer Bebe Neuwirth.
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D.
Graham Sharp
Graham Sharp is an American banjo player, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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E.
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Dodds is a Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party politician who served as Deputy Leader of the DUP and as Member of Parliament for Belfast North.
- 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: Mike Ball Target entity description: Mike Ball is a video game developer best known as one of the founders of the British game studio Ninja Theory.
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A.
Martin Ball
Martin Ball is a British actor known for his work in theatre, television, and musical productions in the UK.
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B.
Andy Barlow
Andy Barlow is a British music producer and musician best known as one half of the electronic duo Lamb and for his production and mixing work with major artists including U2.
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C.
Paul Dorman
Paul Dorman is best known as the former husband of American actress, singer, and dancer Bebe Neuwirth.
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D.
Graham Sharp
Graham Sharp is an American banjo player, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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E.
Nigel Dodds
Nigel Dodds is a Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party politician who served as Deputy Leader of the DUP and as Member of Parliament for Belfast North.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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video game company ⓘ video game developer ⓘ video game developer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Ninja Theory ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | video game industry ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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linked to:
Cambridge, England
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| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Ninja Theory ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | games developed at Ninja Theory ⓘ |
| occupation | video game developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Ninja Theory ⓘ |
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: Mike Ball Description of subject: Mike Ball is a video game developer best known as one of the founders of the British game studio Ninja Theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.