Mako
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Mako is the nickname of Benjamin Mako Hill, a prominent free software activist, scholar, and developer involved with projects like Debian and Wikimedia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mako canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4400227 — 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: Mako Context triple: [Benjamin Mako Hill, nickname, Mako]
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A.
Mako
Mako is a high-speed steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando themed around the ocean’s fastest shark.
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B.
Mako
Mako was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive voice and roles in films like "Conan the Barbarian" and as the voice of Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
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C.
Mako
Mako is a Japanese imperial family member best known as Princess Mako of Akishino, the former princess who left royal status upon her marriage to a commoner.
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D.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
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E.
Kai
Kai is the fictional half-Japanese, half-English outcast and skilled warrior portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the fantasy samurai film "47 Ronin."
- 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: Mako Target entity description: Mako is the nickname of Benjamin Mako Hill, a prominent free software activist, scholar, and developer involved with projects like Debian and Wikimedia.
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A.
Mako
Mako was a Japanese-American actor and voice actor known for his distinctive voice and roles in films like "Conan the Barbarian" and as the voice of Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
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B.
Mako
Mako is a Japanese imperial family member best known as Princess Mako of Akishino, the former princess who left royal status upon her marriage to a commoner.
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C.
Mako
Mako is a high-speed steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando themed around the ocean’s fastest shark.
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D.
Samu
Samu is a given name, commonly used as a short form or variant of Samuel in various cultures.
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E.
Kai
Kai is a masculine given name used in various cultures, often associated with meanings such as "sea," "forgiveness," or "victory" depending on its linguistic origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Debian developer
ⓘ
Wikimedian ⓘ computer programmer ⓘ free software activist ⓘ human ⓘ scholar ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
copyleft licensing
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free culture movement ⓘ software freedom ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
collaborative production
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free software ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ online communities ⓘ open source software ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlog | https://mako.cc/copyrighteous ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Debian developer
ⓘ
Ubuntu community leader ⓘ Wikimedia community member ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://mako.cc/ ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Debian Project
NERFINISHED
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Free Software Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Benjamin Mako Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Mako NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Ubuntu Community Council
NERFINISHED
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Wikimedia Foundation advisory roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Debian Project
NERFINISHED
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Ubuntu project NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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researcher ⓘ software developer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
free culture
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online collaboration ⓘ open collaboration communities ⓘ peer production ⓘ |
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: Mako Description of subject: Mako is the nickname of Benjamin Mako Hill, a prominent free software activist, scholar, and developer involved with projects like Debian and Wikimedia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.