Larry Kaplan
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Larry Kaplan is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an early developer for the Atari 2600.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Kaplan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2807952 — 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: Larry Kaplan Context triple: [Activision Publishing, foundedBy, Larry Kaplan]
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Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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Greg Kaplan
Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
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C.
David Kaplan
David Kaplan is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language and logic, particularly on demonstratives, indexicals, and the semantics of context.
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D.
Don Katz
Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- 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: Larry Kaplan Target entity description: Larry Kaplan is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an early developer for the Atari 2600.
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A.
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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B.
Greg Kaplan
Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
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C.
David Kaplan
David Kaplan is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language and logic, particularly on demonstratives, indexicals, and the semantics of context.
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D.
Don Katz
Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
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E.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Larry Kaplan Description of subject: Larry Kaplan is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an early developer for the Atari 2600.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amiga Corporation