Henry Ross
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Henry Ross is a businessman best known as a founder of the American video game company Midway Games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Ross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250933 — 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: Henry Ross Context triple: [Midway Games, foundedBy, Henry Ross]
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A.
Henry Ross
Henry Ross "Ross" Perot Jr. is an American billionaire businessman, real estate developer, and former Air Force pilot best known for leading major Dallas development projects and chairing the Perot Group and Hillwood.
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B.
Henry Ross
Henry Ross was the husband of American film and stage actress Glenda Farrell, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
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C.
Henry Foster
Henry Foster is a minor but representative Alpha Plus character in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel "Brave New World," known for his efficient conformity to the World State’s values and casual relationships.
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D.
Henry Foster
Henry Foster was a British naval officer and scientist known for his early 19th-century Antarctic and geophysical explorations.
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E.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
- 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: Henry Ross Target entity description: Henry Ross is a businessman best known as a founder of the American video game company Midway Games.
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A.
Henry Ross
Henry Ross "Ross" Perot Jr. is an American billionaire businessman, real estate developer, and former Air Force pilot best known for leading major Dallas development projects and chairing the Perot Group and Hillwood.
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B.
Henry Ross
Henry Ross was the husband of American film and stage actress Glenda Farrell, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
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C.
Henry Foster
Henry Foster is a minor but representative Alpha Plus character in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel "Brave New World," known for his efficient conformity to the World State’s values and casual relationships.
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D.
Henry Foster
Henry Foster was a British naval officer and scientist known for his early 19th-century Antarctic and geophysical explorations.
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E.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessman
ⓘ
video game company ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| industry |
arcade games
ⓘ
home video games ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Midway Games ⓘ |
| notableWork | Midway Games ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
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: Henry Ross Description of subject: Henry Ross is a businessman best known as a founder of the American video game company Midway Games.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.