Chris Avellone
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Chris Avellone is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on critically acclaimed role-playing games such as Planescape: Torment and the Fallout series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Avellone canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11290306 — 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)
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Target entity: Chris Avellone Context triple: [Obsidian Entertainment, foundedBy, Chris Avellone]
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A.
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an American electronic musician and sound designer known for his complex, experimental compositions and work in film, games, and technology.
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B.
Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the enterprise software company Micro Focus.
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C.
Matt Shafer
Matt Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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D.
Toby Gard
Toby Gard is a British video game designer best known for creating the iconic Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.
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E.
Jay Johnston
Jay Johnston is an American actor and comedian best known for his work on shows like Mr. Show with Bob and David and for voicing Jimmy Pesto Sr. on the animated series Bob’s Burgers.
- 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: Chris Avellone Target entity description: Chris Avellone is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on critically acclaimed role-playing games such as Planescape: Torment and the Fallout series.
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A.
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an American electronic musician and sound designer known for his complex, experimental compositions and work in film, games, and technology.
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B.
Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the enterprise software company Micro Focus.
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C.
Matt Shafer
Matt Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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D.
Toby Gard
Toby Gard is a British video game designer best known for creating the iconic Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.
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E.
Jay Johnston
Jay Johnston is an American actor and comedian best known for his work on shows like Mr. Show with Bob and David and for voicing Jimmy Pesto Sr. on the animated series Bob’s Burgers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrative designer
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person ⓘ video game designer ⓘ video game writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Black Isle Studios
NERFINISHED
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Interplay Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Obsidian Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
game narrative design
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interactive storytelling ⓘ video game industry ⓘ |
| genre | role-playing video game ⓘ |
| knownFor |
branching narrative design
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complex character development ⓘ writing role-playing video games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Black Isle Studios
NERFINISHED
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Obsidian Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alpha Protocol
NERFINISHED
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Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II NERFINISHED ⓘ Divinity: Original Sin II NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout: New Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout: New Vegas – Dead Money NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout: New Vegas – Lonesome Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Fallout: New Vegas – Old World Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Icewind Dale NERFINISHED ⓘ Icewind Dale II NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Breach NERFINISHED ⓘ Neverwinter Nights 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Pathfinder: Kingmaker NERFINISHED ⓘ Pillars of Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire NERFINISHED ⓘ Planescape: Torment NERFINISHED ⓘ Prey (2017 video game) NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords NERFINISHED ⓘ Torment: Tides of Numenera NERFINISHED ⓘ Wasteland 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wasteland 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
narrative designer
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video game designer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | creative director at Obsidian Entertainment ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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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: Chris Avellone Description of subject: Chris Avellone is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on critically acclaimed role-playing games such as Planescape: Torment and the Fallout series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.