Dave Grossman
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Dave Grossman is a game designer best known for his work on classic LucasArts adventure games, including co-designing The Secret of Monkey Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Grossman canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8561999 — 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 Grossman Context triple: [The Secret of Monkey Island, designer, Dave Grossman]
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A.
Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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B.
James Jones
James Jones is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor.
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C.
James Jones
James Jones was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his World War II-themed works such as "From Here to Eternity."
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D.
James Jones
James Jones is an architect known for his work on the Gallery of Modern Art.
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E.
James Jones
James Jones is a former NBA player who became a basketball executive and now leads the Phoenix Suns’ front office.
- 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 Grossman Target entity description: Dave Grossman is a game designer best known for his work on classic LucasArts adventure games, including co-designing The Secret of Monkey Island.
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A.
Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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B.
James Jones
James Jones is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor.
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C.
James Jones
James Jones was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his World War II-themed works such as "From Here to Eternity."
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D.
James Jones
James Jones is an architect known for his work on the Gallery of Modern Art.
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E.
James Jones
James Jones is a former NBA player who became a basketball executive and now leads the Phoenix Suns’ front office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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game writer ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| coDesignerOf |
Day of the Tentacle
NERFINISHED
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employer |
LucasArts
NERFINISHED
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Lucasfilm Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
game design
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interactive storytelling ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| genre | adventure games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Day of the Tentacle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LucasArts adventure games ⓘ Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | humorous adventure game writing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Day of the Tentacle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
game designer
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game writer ⓘ |
| workedAt |
LucasArts
NERFINISHED
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Lucasfilm Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Day of the Tentacle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Monkey Island 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: Dave Grossman Description of subject: Dave Grossman is a game designer best known for his work on classic LucasArts adventure games, including co-designing The Secret of Monkey Island.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.