Don Woods
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Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Woods canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4382622 — 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: Don Woods Context triple: [Woods, hasNotableBearer, Don Woods]
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A.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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B.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
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D.
Nick Woods
Nick Woods is a musician known for being a member of the American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels.
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E.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
- 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: Don Woods Target entity description: Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
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A.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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B.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
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D.
Nick Woods
Nick Woods is a musician known for being a member of the American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels.
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E.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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computer programmer ⓘ human ⓘ video game developer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| coCreatorOf | Colossal Cave Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Will Crowther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
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Stanford University ⓘ Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ Xerox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer programming
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interactive fiction ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| genre | text adventure games ⓘ |
| influenced |
early adventure game design
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interactive fiction community ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adding fantasy elements to Colossal Cave Adventure
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expanding Colossal Cave Adventure ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped popularize the text adventure genre ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early work on computer games on mainframe systems
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maintaining and distributing Colossal Cave Adventure source code ⓘ |
| notableWork | Colossal Cave Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
software engineer
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systems programmer ⓘ |
| programmedIn | Fortran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Don Woods Description of subject: Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.