Tom Preston-Werner

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businessperson entrepreneur human software developer

Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Tom Preston-Werner canonical	10
Preston-Werner	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T264638 — 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: Tom Preston-Werner
Context triple: [GitHub, foundedBy, Tom Preston-Werner]

A. Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
B. Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing significantly to agile software development practices.
C. Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
D. Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
E. Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
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: Tom Preston-Werner
Target entity description: Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.

A. Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
B. Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing significantly to agile software development practices.
C. Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
D. Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
E. Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

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instanceOf	businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ
associatedWith	JavaScript ecosystem ⓘ Ruby programming language community ⓘ open-source community ⓘ
boardMemberOf	Chatterbug ⓘ
coFounded	Chatterbug ⓘ GitHub ⓘ Gravatar ⓘ RedwoodJS ⓘ Kapor Capital ⓘ surface form: Tidelift (early backer and co-founder-level role)
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
created	Jekyll static site generator ⓘ surface form: Jekyll RedwoodJS ⓘ surface form: RedwoodJS framework Semantic Versioning specification ⓘ
employer	Chatterbug ⓘ GitHub ⓘ
familyName	Tom Preston-Werner self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Preston-Werner
fieldOfWork	developer tools ⓘ open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ web development ⓘ
givenName	Tom ⓘ
hasGitHubProfile	https://github.com/mojombo ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://tom.preston-werner.com ⓘ
influenced	static site generation ecosystem ⓘ versioning practices in software development ⓘ
investorIn	developer tooling startups ⓘ
knownFor	co-founding GitHub ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
name	Tom Preston-Werner self-link ⓘ
notableIdea	Git-based social coding ⓘ Semantic Versioning specification ⓘ surface form: Semantic Versioning
notableProject	GitHub ⓘ Jekyll static site generator ⓘ surface form: Jekyll RedwoodJS ⓘ Semantic Versioning specification ⓘ surface form: Semantic Versioning
notablePublication	Semantic Versioning specification ⓘ surface form: Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 specification
notableWork	Jekyll static site generator ⓘ
occupation	business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ software developer ⓘ
positionHeld	CEO of GitHub ⓘ President of GitHub ⓘ
pseudonym	mojombo ⓘ
residence	San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
spouse	Theresa Preston-Werner ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GitHub → foundedBy → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

Tom Preston-Werner → name → Tom Preston-Werner self-link ⓘ

Tom Preston-Werner → familyName → Tom Preston-Werner self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Preston-Werner

Gravatar → creator → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

RedwoodJS → creator → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

mojombo → realName → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

mojombo → coFounder → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

subject surface form: GitHub

mojombo → founder → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

subject surface form: Gravatar

mojombo → coFounder → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

subject surface form: Chatterbug

mojombo → coFounder → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

subject surface form: RedwoodJS

mojombo → creator → Tom Preston-Werner ⓘ

subject surface form: Jekyll

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Referenced by (11)

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