Frank Tompa
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Frank Tompa is a Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText Corporation, a major enterprise information management and software company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Tompa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7885467 — 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: Frank Tompa Context triple: [OpenText Corporation, foundedBy, Frank Tompa]
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A.
Ian Fried
Ian Fried is a screenwriter best known for penning the supernatural thriller film "Spectral."
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B.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager, best known for his All-Star playing career with the Los Angeles/California Angels and later managing teams such as the Philadelphia Phillies.
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D.
George Russo
George Russo is an actor known for his role in the film "The Time of Angels."
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E.
David Huntley
David Huntley is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the outdoor apparel and equipment company Mountain Hardwear.
- 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: Frank Tompa Target entity description: Frank Tompa is a Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText Corporation, a major enterprise information management and software company.
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A.
Ian Fried
Ian Fried is a screenwriter best known for penning the supernatural thriller film "Spectral."
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B.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager, best known for his All-Star playing career with the Los Angeles/California Angels and later managing teams such as the Philadelphia Phillies.
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D.
George Russo
George Russo is an actor known for his role in the film "The Time of Angels."
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E.
David Huntley
David Huntley is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the outdoor apparel and equipment company Mountain Hardwear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | OpenText Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Toronto ⓘ |
| employer | University of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
databases ⓘ document management ⓘ text retrieval ⓘ |
| genre | scientific research papers ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | OpenText Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
academic researcher
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co-founder of OpenText ⓘ software industry executive ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding OpenText Corporation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
information retrieval
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structured documents ⓘ text databases ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
NERFINISHED
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IEEE Computer Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | students in computer science at University of Waterloo ⓘ |
| notableWork | OpenText Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at University of Waterloo ⓘ |
| residence | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Waterloo, Ontario 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: Frank Tompa Description of subject: Frank Tompa is a Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText Corporation, a major enterprise information management and software company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.