David Johnston
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David Johnston is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Syntrillium Software, the company behind the popular audio editing program Cool Edit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Johnston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7033301 — 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: David Johnston Context triple: [Syntrillium Software, foundedBy, David Johnston]
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A.
David Johnston
David Johnston is a Canadian academic, author, and lawyer who served as the 28th Governor General of Canada from 2010 to 2017.
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B.
Ian Telfer
Ian Telfer is a Canadian mining executive and philanthropist known for his leadership in the resource industry and major donations to higher education.
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C.
Leslie Menzies
Leslie Menzies is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Menzies.
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D.
Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister in the late 1980s.
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E.
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and Governor of the Straits Settlements known for consolidating British influence in the Malay Peninsula.
- 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: David Johnston Target entity description: David Johnston is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Syntrillium Software, the company behind the popular audio editing program Cool Edit.
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A.
David Johnston
David Johnston is a Canadian academic, author, and lawyer who served as the 28th Governor General of Canada from 2010 to 2017.
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B.
Ian Telfer
Ian Telfer is a Canadian mining executive and philanthropist known for his leadership in the resource industry and major donations to higher education.
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C.
Leslie Menzies
Leslie Menzies is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Menzies.
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D.
Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer is a New Zealand lawyer, academic, and politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister in the late 1980s.
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E.
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and Governor of the Straits Settlements known for consolidating British influence in the Malay Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio editing program
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entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ software company ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| coFounded | Syntrillium Software NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Syntrillium Software NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cool Edit
NERFINISHED
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co-founding Syntrillium Software ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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software developer ⓘ |
| product | Cool Edit 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: David Johnston Description of subject: David Johnston is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Syntrillium Software, the company behind the popular audio editing program Cool Edit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.