Larry Hornbeck
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Larry Hornbeck is an American engineer best known for creating the digital micromirror device that underpins Texas Instruments' DLP projection technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Hornbeck canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4576184 — 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 Hornbeck Context triple: [DLP technology, inventedBy, Larry Hornbeck]
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A.
William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
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B.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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C.
Lew Hahn
Lew Hahn is a recording engineer known for his work on notable music projects such as the song "I'm Every Woman."
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D.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- 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 Hornbeck Target entity description: Larry Hornbeck is an American engineer best known for creating the digital micromirror device that underpins Texas Instruments' DLP projection technology.
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A.
William Hornbeck
William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
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B.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
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C.
Lew Hahn
Lew Hahn is a recording engineer known for his work on notable music projects such as the song "I'm Every Woman."
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D.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWithCompany | Texas Instruments NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTechnology | DLP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
advancement of digital projection
ⓘ
replacement of film-based cinema projection with digital systems ⓘ |
| developedFor | Texas Instruments DLP projectors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Texas Instruments NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfUseOfInvention |
data projectors
ⓘ
digital cinema projection ⓘ front projection displays ⓘ projection televisions ⓘ rear projection displays ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electrical engineering
ⓘ
optical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPatentOn | digital micromirror device ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of DLP projection technology
ⓘ
inventing the digital micromirror device ⓘ |
| name | Larry Hornbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableWork |
DLP projection technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
digital micromirror device ⓘ |
| occupation | engineer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dallas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas 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: Larry Hornbeck Description of subject: Larry Hornbeck is an American engineer best known for creating the digital micromirror device that underpins Texas Instruments' DLP projection technology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Digital Light Processing