Dave Thomas
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Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dave Thomas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6231533 — 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: Dave Thomas Context triple: [Agile Manifesto, author, Dave Thomas]
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A.
S. Truett Cathy
S. Truett Cathy was an American entrepreneur and devout Southern Baptist best known as the founder of the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, which he built around Christian principles and a focus on customer service.
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B.
William Lundigan
William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
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C.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman best known for turning McDonald's into a global fast-food empire through aggressive franchising and standardization.
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D.
Bob Evans
Bob Evans is an American restaurateur and founder of the Bob Evans restaurant chain and food products brand.
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E.
James Ritz
James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
- 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: Dave Thomas Target entity description: Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
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A.
S. Truett Cathy
S. Truett Cathy was an American entrepreneur and devout Southern Baptist best known as the founder of the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, which he built around Christian principles and a focus on customer service.
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B.
William Lundigan
William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
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C.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman best known for turning McDonald's into a global fast-food empire through aggressive franchising and standardization.
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D.
Bob Evans
Bob Evans is an American restaurateur and founder of the Bob Evans restaurant chain and food products brand.
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E.
James Ritz
James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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conference speaker ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| activeIn | software industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1990s ⓘ |
| advocates |
continuous learning for developers
ⓘ
pragmatic approaches to software development ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pragmatic Bookshelf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pragmatic Programmers LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author |
Andy Hunt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coAuthorOf |
"Agile Web Development with Rails"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"Programming Ruby" NERFINISHED ⓘ "The Pragmatic Programmer" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Andy Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Pragmatic Bookshelf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pragmatic Programmers LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | popularization of agile software development ⓘ |
| educationFocus | software development practices ⓘ |
| field |
agile software development
ⓘ
software craftsmanship ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| founder |
Dave Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dave Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://pragprog.com ⓘ |
| influenced |
agile methodologies adoption
ⓘ
software engineering practices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto
ⓘ
co-authoring "The Pragmatic Programmer" ⓘ |
| languageWrittenAbout |
Java
NERFINISHED
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Ruby NERFINISHED ⓘ general-purpose programming ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Agile Web Development with Rails"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
"Programming Ruby" NERFINISHED ⓘ "The Pragmatic Programmer" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
programmer
ⓘ
software consultant ⓘ technical author ⓘ |
| roleInAgileManifesto | original signatory ⓘ |
| signatory | Dave Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signatoryOf | Agile Manifesto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speaksAt |
agile conferences
ⓘ
software development conferences ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
agile development
ⓘ
programming best practices ⓘ software design ⓘ |
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: Dave Thomas Description of subject: Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.