David Kirkpatrick
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David Kirkpatrick is an American technology journalist and author best known for his book "The Facebook Effect," which chronicles the rise and impact of Facebook.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Kirkpatrick canonical | 3 |
| David D. Kirkpatrick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T211810 — 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: David Kirkpatrick Context triple: [Kirkpatrick, hasNotableBearer, David Kirkpatrick]
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A.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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B.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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E.
Erskine Bowles
Erskine Bowles is an American businessman and Democratic politician who served in senior roles in the Clinton administration and later co-chaired the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
- 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: David Kirkpatrick Target entity description: David Kirkpatrick is an American technology journalist and author best known for his book "The Facebook Effect," which chronicles the rise and impact of Facebook.
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A.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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B.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Denis McDonough
Denis McDonough is an American political advisor who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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E.
Erskine Bowles
Erskine Bowles is an American businessman and Democratic politician who served in senior roles in the Clinton administration and later co-chaired the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ person ⓘ technology journalist ⓘ |
| author | David Kirkpatrick self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business journalism
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social media ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| genre |
business writing
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non-fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ technology writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Facebook ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of social networks
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chronicling the rise and impact of Facebook ⓘ writing about technology companies ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Facebook Effect ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ technology journalist ⓘ |
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: David Kirkpatrick Description of subject: David Kirkpatrick is an American technology journalist and author best known for his book "The Facebook Effect," which chronicles the rise and impact of Facebook.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kirkpatrick
subject surface form:
The Facebook Effect
this entity surface form:
David D. Kirkpatrick