David Goodger
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David Goodger is a software developer and technical writer best known for creating the reStructuredText markup language and contributing to the Python community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Goodger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10825807 — 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 Goodger Context triple: [reStructuredText, designedBy, David Goodger]
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A.
Ben Finney
Ben Finney was an anthropologist and pioneer of experimental archaeology best known for reviving traditional Polynesian navigation and co-founding the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
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B.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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C.
David Flanagan
David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
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D.
Chris Angelico
Chris Angelico is a Python developer and community contributor known for his involvement in Python Enhancement Proposals, including co-authoring PEP 572.
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E.
Ken Weatherwax
Ken Weatherwax was an American child actor best known for playing Pugsley Addams on the 1960s television series "The Addams Family."
- 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 Goodger Target entity description: David Goodger is a software developer and technical writer best known for creating the reStructuredText markup language and contributing to the Python community.
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A.
Ben Finney
Ben Finney was an anthropologist and pioneer of experimental archaeology best known for reviving traditional Polynesian navigation and co-founding the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
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B.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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C.
David Flanagan
David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
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D.
Chris Angelico
Chris Angelico is a Python developer and community contributor known for his involvement in Python Enhancement Proposals, including co-authoring PEP 572.
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E.
Ken Weatherwax
Ken Weatherwax was an American child actor best known for playing Pugsley Addams on the 1960s television series "The Addams Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lightweight markup language
ⓘ
open-source contributor ⓘ software developer ⓘ technical writer ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Python community
NERFINISHED
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Python documentation ecosystem ⓘ |
| designed | reStructuredText NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
markup languages
ⓘ
software development ⓘ technical documentation ⓘ |
| involvedIn | open-source software projects ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to the Python community
ⓘ
creating the reStructuredText markup language ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Python Software Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
documentation tools for Python
ⓘ
reStructuredText specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
software developer
ⓘ
technical writer ⓘ |
| partOf | Python documentation tools ecosystem ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Python
ⓘ
Python ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Python documentation
ⓘ
technical documentation ⓘ |
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 Goodger Description of subject: David Goodger is a software developer and technical writer best known for creating the reStructuredText markup language and contributing to the Python community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.