MyLifeBits project
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The MyLifeBits project is a pioneering Microsoft Research initiative led by Gordon Bell that explored the concept of digitally capturing and storing a person’s entire life experiences and data for comprehensive lifelong archiving and retrieval.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MyLifeBits lifelogging project | 1 |
| MyLifeBits project canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8520863 — 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: MyLifeBits project Context triple: [Gordon Bell, notableWork, MyLifeBits project]
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A.
People’s Living Lab
People’s Living Lab is the core theme of Expo 2025, envisioning the world’s fair as a large-scale experimental space where people, technologies, and ideas interact to co-create solutions for future society.
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B.
Bitchitronics
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C.
Tree That Owns Itself
The Tree That Owns Itself is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia, reputedly granted legal ownership of itself and the land immediately surrounding it.
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D.
PixelSense
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E.
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
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- 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: MyLifeBits project Target entity description: The MyLifeBits project is a pioneering Microsoft Research initiative led by Gordon Bell that explored the concept of digitally capturing and storing a person’s entire life experiences and data for comprehensive lifelong archiving and retrieval.
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A.
People’s Living Lab
People’s Living Lab is the core theme of Expo 2025, envisioning the world’s fair as a large-scale experimental space where people, technologies, and ideas interact to co-create solutions for future society.
-
B.
Bitchitronics
Bitchitronics is a 2013 experimental electronic album by Chicago-based trio Bitchin Bajas, known for its hypnotic, synth-driven ambient soundscapes.
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C.
Tree That Owns Itself
The Tree That Owns Itself is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia, reputedly granted legal ownership of itself and the land immediately surrounding it.
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D.
PixelSense
PixelSense is Microsoft’s high-resolution, touch- and pen-enabled display technology used in Surface devices for precise, responsive input and vivid visuals.
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E.
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence is a technology company known for pioneering speech recognition and artificial intelligence software applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital archiving project
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lifelogging system ⓘ research project ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| demonstratedOn | Gordon Bell’s personal data ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
context-based retrieval of personal data
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full-text search over personal archives ⓘ time-based browsing of life events ⓘ |
| goal |
to create a comprehensive lifelong personal archive
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to digitally capture and store a person’s entire life experiences ⓘ to enable rich search and retrieval over personal lifetime data ⓘ |
| influenced |
later lifelogging research
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personal data store concepts ⓘ personal digital archiving practices ⓘ quantified self movement ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Vannevar Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByConcept | Memex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | As We May Think NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadResearcher | Gordon Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Redmond, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePublication | Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organization | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationAuthor |
Gordon Bell
NERFINISHED
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Jim Gemmell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchArea |
database systems
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digital preservation ⓘ human–computer interaction ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ lifelogging ⓘ multimedia information retrieval ⓘ personal information management ⓘ quantified self ⓘ ubiquitous computing ⓘ |
| researcher | Jim Gemmell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1998 ⓘ |
| stores |
biometric data
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documents ⓘ emails ⓘ instant messages ⓘ location data ⓘ phone calls ⓘ photos ⓘ sensor data ⓘ videos ⓘ web pages ⓘ |
| uses |
PC logging software
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database technology ⓘ metadata annotation ⓘ microphones ⓘ scanners ⓘ wearable cameras ⓘ |
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: MyLifeBits project Description of subject: The MyLifeBits project is a pioneering Microsoft Research initiative led by Gordon Bell that explored the concept of digitally capturing and storing a person’s entire life experiences and data for comprehensive lifelong archiving and retrieval.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MyLifeBits lifelogging project