Jason Kottke
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Jason Kottke is an American blogger and web designer best known for running the long-running weblog kottke.org, one of the earliest and most influential personal blogs on the internet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Kottke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11078950 — 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: Jason Kottke Context triple: [Kottke, hasNotableBearer, Jason Kottke]
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A.
Brad Bodnick
Brad Bodnick is a minor but memorable supporting character in the film "The Wolf of Wall Street," depicted as one of Jordan Belfort’s hard-partying, drug-dealing associates.
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B.
Tom Lichtenheld
Tom Lichtenheld is a children's book author and illustrator known for his humorous, expressive artwork in popular picture books such as "Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site" and "Duck! Rabbit!".
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C.
John Gruber
John Gruber is an American writer, blogger, and technology commentator best known for creating the Markdown markup language and publishing the long-running Apple-focused blog Daring Fireball.
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D.
Brennan Huff
Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
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E.
Greg Germann
Greg Germann is an American actor best known for his role as the uptight, comedic lawyer Richard Fish on the television series "Ally McBeal."
- 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: Jason Kottke Target entity description: Jason Kottke is an American blogger and web designer best known for running the long-running weblog kottke.org, one of the earliest and most influential personal blogs on the internet.
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A.
Brad Bodnick
Brad Bodnick is a minor but memorable supporting character in the film "The Wolf of Wall Street," depicted as one of Jordan Belfort’s hard-partying, drug-dealing associates.
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B.
Tom Lichtenheld
Tom Lichtenheld is a children's book author and illustrator known for his humorous, expressive artwork in popular picture books such as "Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site" and "Duck! Rabbit!".
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C.
John Gruber
John Gruber is an American writer, blogger, and technology commentator best known for creating the Markdown markup language and publishing the long-running Apple-focused blog Daring Fireball.
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D.
Brennan Huff
Brennan Huff is the immature, unemployed man-child portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Step Brothers."
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E.
Greg Germann
Greg Germann is an American actor best known for his role as the uptight, comedic lawyer Richard Fish on the television series "Ally McBeal."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American blogger
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blogger ⓘ person ⓘ web designer ⓘ |
| activity | curating interesting links and commentary on the web ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
blogosphere
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indie web community ⓘ personal publishing movement ⓘ |
| blogGenre |
culture
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design ⓘ internet culture ⓘ link blog ⓘ personal blog ⓘ science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| era |
Web 1.0
NERFINISHED
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Web 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ early web era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital media
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graphic design ⓘ online publishing ⓘ user interface design ⓘ |
| founded | kottke.org NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLongRunningProject | kottke.org NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedDomain |
blogging
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personal publishing on the web ⓘ web design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early web design
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kottke.org NERFINISHED ⓘ personal blogging ⓘ |
| languageOfBlog | English ⓘ |
| medium |
weblog
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website ⓘ |
| name | Jason Kottke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| notableCharacteristic |
early adopter of blogging
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maintains an ad-supported independent site ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing early blogging culture
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maintaining a long-running independent blog ⓘ running one of the earliest personal weblogs ⓘ |
| occupation |
blogger
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web designer ⓘ |
| platform | World Wide Web NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleAtKottke.org |
editor
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primary author ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| typeOfBlogger | independent blogger GENERATED ⓘ |
| website | https://kottke.org ⓘ |
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: Jason Kottke Description of subject: Jason Kottke is an American blogger and web designer best known for running the long-running weblog kottke.org, one of the earliest and most influential personal blogs on the internet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.