James Sansbury
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James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Sansbury canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499743 — 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: James Sansbury Context triple: [Altera, foundedBy, James Sansbury]
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A.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American sprinter who became the first Olympic champion in both the 100-meter and 400-meter races at the modern Games.
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B.
William Guilfoyle
William Guilfoyle was a 19th-century Australian landscape gardener and botanist best known for transforming Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens into a picturesque, internationally acclaimed garden.
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C.
John Chute
John Chute was an 18th-century English antiquarian, designer, and close associate of Horace Walpole who played a key role in shaping the Gothic revival style at Strawberry Hill.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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E.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
- 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: James Sansbury Target entity description: James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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A.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke was an American sprinter who became the first Olympic champion in both the 100-meter and 400-meter races at the modern Games.
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B.
William Guilfoyle
William Guilfoyle was a 19th-century Australian landscape gardener and botanist best known for transforming Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens into a picturesque, internationally acclaimed garden.
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C.
John Chute
John Chute was an 18th-century English antiquarian, designer, and close associate of Horace Walpole who played a key role in shaping the Gothic revival style at Strawberry Hill.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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E.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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software company ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Altera ⓘ |
| field | technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding the software company Altera ⓘ |
| name | James Sansbury ⓘ |
| occupation | entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: James Sansbury Description of subject: James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.