Steve Meretzky
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Steve Meretzky is an American game designer best known for his influential and humorous text adventures at Infocom, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Meretzky canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1271191 — 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 Meretzky Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game), coDesigner, Steve Meretzky]
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A.
Simon Ramo
Simon Ramo was an American engineer, physicist, and business leader renowned as a pioneer of the aerospace and electronics industries and a key architect of the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile program.
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B.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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C.
Doug McHenry
Doug McHenry is an American film producer and director known for his work on popular African-American comedies and dramas.
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D.
David Simas
David Simas is an American political strategist and former Obama White House official who serves as a top executive leader at the Obama Foundation.
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E.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
- 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 Meretzky Target entity description: Steve Meretzky is an American game designer best known for his influential and humorous text adventures at Infocom, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
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A.
Simon Ramo
Simon Ramo was an American engineer, physicist, and business leader renowned as a pioneer of the aerospace and electronics industries and a key architect of the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile program.
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B.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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C.
Doug McHenry
Doug McHenry is an American film producer and director known for his work on popular African-American comedies and dramas.
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D.
David Simas
David Simas is an American political strategist and former Obama White House official who serves as a top executive leader at the Obama Foundation.
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E.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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game designer ⓘ person ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| collaboratedWith |
Douglas Adams
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Infocom authors ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
A Mind Forever Voyaging
ⓘ
Leather Goddesses of Phobos ⓘ Planetfall ⓘ Sorcerer ⓘ Stationfall ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)
The Spellcasting series ⓘ Zork ⓘ
surface form:
Zork Zero
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| employer | Infocom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
interactive fiction
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video games ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasGenreInWorks |
adventure
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parody ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| industry | video game industry ⓘ |
| influenced |
adventure game designers
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interactive fiction authors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Infocom ⓘ |
| notableFor |
humorous games
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humorous writing in games ⓘ innovative parser-based adventures ⓘ interactive fiction ⓘ pioneering narrative design in games ⓘ text adventure games ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Mind Forever Voyaging
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos ⓘ Planetfall ⓘ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)
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| occupation |
game designer
ⓘ
video game designer ⓘ |
| workedAt |
Boffo Games
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Playdom ⓘ WorldWinner ⓘ |
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 Meretzky Description of subject: Steve Meretzky is an American game designer best known for his influential and humorous text adventures at Infocom, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.