Jon Orwant
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Jon Orwant is a computer scientist and author best known for his influential work in the Perl programming community and contributions to technical publishing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Orwant canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10826506 — 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: Jon Orwant Context triple: [Programming Perl, author, Jon Orwant]
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A.
Eric Orsborn
Eric Orsborn is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Buckeye, Arizona.
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B.
Andy Horwitz
Andy Horwitz is a film producer best known for his work on major action and thriller projects in Hollywood.
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C.
Mark Orr
Mark Orr is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Sacramento State Hornets.
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D.
Vince Welnick
Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
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E.
Michael D’Orso
Michael D’Orso is an American author and journalist known for co-writing influential nonfiction books, often chronicling social justice movements and notable public figures.
- 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: Jon Orwant Target entity description: Jon Orwant is a computer scientist and author best known for his influential work in the Perl programming community and contributions to technical publishing.
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A.
Eric Orsborn
Eric Orsborn is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Buckeye, Arizona.
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B.
Andy Horwitz
Andy Horwitz is a film producer best known for his work on major action and thriller projects in Hollywood.
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C.
Mark Orr
Mark Orr is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Sacramento State Hornets.
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D.
Vince Welnick
Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
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E.
Michael D’Orso
Michael D’Orso is an American author and journalist known for co-writing influential nonfiction books, often chronicling social justice movements and notable public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ software engineer ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Jarkko Hietaniemi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Christiansen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communityRole |
Perl advocate
ⓘ
Perl conference speaker ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Perl community
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perl culture ⓘ technical book publishing ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
ⓘ
O’Reilly Media NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perl Journal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
programming languages ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| genre | technical non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
algorithms
ⓘ
digital publishing ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ programming language design ⓘ technical writing ⓘ |
| influenced |
Perl programmers
ⓘ
technical publishing in open-source communities ⓘ |
| knownFor |
books on Perl
ⓘ
editing The Perl Journal ⓘ technical publishing ⓘ work in the Perl programming community ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Games, Diversions & Perl Culture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mastering Algorithms with Perl NERFINISHED ⓘ Programming Perl (3rd edition, coauthor) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perl Journal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ researcher ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Perl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedIn | O’Reilly Media catalog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
editor of The Perl Journal
ⓘ
engineering director at Google ⓘ founder of The Perl Journal ⓘ research director at Google (various groups) ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Perl programming
ⓘ
algorithms ⓘ software development ⓘ |
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: Jon Orwant Description of subject: Jon Orwant is a computer scientist and author best known for his influential work in the Perl programming community and contributions to technical publishing.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.