Andrew Plotkin
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Andrew Plotkin is an influential interactive fiction author and game designer known for his pioneering work in modern text adventures and narrative-driven games.
All labels observed (1)
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| Andrew Plotkin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13222062 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Plotkin Context triple: [Invasion, executiveProducer, Andrew Plotkin]
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Ken Rolston
Ken Rolston is a veteran tabletop and video game designer best known as the lead designer of the acclaimed role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
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Dave Lebling
Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
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C.
Ari Levine
Ari Levine is an American record producer and songwriter best known as a member of the production team The Smeezingtons, who crafted numerous pop and R&B hits with Bruno Mars.
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D.
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an American electronic musician and sound designer known for his complex, experimental compositions and work in film, games, and technology.
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E.
Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
- 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: Andrew Plotkin Target entity description: Andrew Plotkin is an influential interactive fiction author and game designer known for his pioneering work in modern text adventures and narrative-driven games.
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A.
Ken Rolston
Ken Rolston is a veteran tabletop and video game designer best known as the lead designer of the acclaimed role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
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B.
Dave Lebling
Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
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C.
Ari Levine
Ari Levine is an American record producer and songwriter best known as a member of the production team The Smeezingtons, who crafted numerous pop and R&B hits with Bruno Mars.
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D.
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an American electronic musician and sound designer known for his complex, experimental compositions and work in film, games, and technology.
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E.
Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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| instanceOf |
Glulx implementer
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game designer ⓘ interactive fiction author ⓘ person ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Zarf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | XYZZY Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| created |
A Change in the Weather
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Hadean Lands NERFINISHED ⓘ Hunter, in Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ Shade NERFINISHED ⓘ So Far NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider and Web NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dreamhold NERFINISHED ⓘ The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Space Under the Window NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crowdfunded | Hadean Lands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designed | puzzle-heavy narrative games ⓘ |
| developed | Glk I/O library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| field |
computer programming
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game design ⓘ interactive fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
parser-based interactive fiction
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text adventure ⓘ |
| influenced | modern interactive fiction community ⓘ |
| knownFor |
modern text adventures
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narrative-driven games ⓘ pioneering work in interactive fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains | Zarf’s interactive fiction blog ⓘ |
| memberOf | interactive fiction community ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Change in the Weather
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| programmed | Glulx virtual machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied | computer science ⓘ |
| usedPlatform |
Glulx
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Inform NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://eblong.com/zarf/ ⓘ |
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: Andrew Plotkin Description of subject: Andrew Plotkin is an influential interactive fiction author and game designer known for his pioneering work in modern text adventures and narrative-driven games.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.