Max Kenner
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Max Kenner is an American educator and social entrepreneur best known for creating and leading the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides rigorous college education to incarcerated people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Kenner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8613243 — 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: Max Kenner Context triple: [Bard Prison Initiative, founder, Max Kenner]
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A.
Mark Korven
Mark Korven is a Canadian film and television composer best known for his unsettling, atmospheric scores for horror projects such as The Witch and The Lighthouse.
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B.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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C.
Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur known for co-founding the comedy video website Funny or Die and for his prominent role at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
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D.
Jack Tornek
Jack Tornek was a character actor known for small roles in early 20th-century American films, including the 1950s horror movie "Hellgate."
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- 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: Max Kenner Target entity description: Max Kenner is an American educator and social entrepreneur best known for creating and leading the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides rigorous college education to incarcerated people.
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A.
Mark Korven
Mark Korven is a Canadian film and television composer best known for his unsettling, atmospheric scores for horror projects such as The Witch and The Lighthouse.
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B.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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C.
Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur known for co-founding the comedy video website Funny or Die and for his prominent role at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.
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D.
Jack Tornek
Jack Tornek was a character actor known for small roles in early 20th-century American films, including the 1950s horror movie "Hellgate."
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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human ⓘ social entrepreneur ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bard College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Bard College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal justice reform
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higher education ⓘ prison education ⓘ |
| founded | Bard Prison Initiative NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | leader in college-in-prison education in the United States ⓘ |
| hasWork |
advocacy for access to higher education for incarcerated people
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development of college-in-prison programs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the Bard Prison Initiative
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leading the Bard Prison Initiative ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement |
criminal justice reform
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education equity ⓘ prison education reform ⓘ |
| notableFor | Bard Prison Initiative NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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social entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Executive Director of the Bard Prison Initiative ⓘ |
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: Max Kenner Description of subject: Max Kenner is an American educator and social entrepreneur best known for creating and leading the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides rigorous college education to incarcerated people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.