Tim Starling
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Tim Starling is a software engineer best known for his long-time work as a MediaWiki developer and contributor to the Wikimedia Foundation’s technical infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Starling canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12844141 — 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: Tim Starling Context triple: [Angela Beesley, spouse, Tim Starling]
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A.
Santos Irwin
Santos Irwin is the child of American actor and clown Bill Irwin.
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B.
Jamie Oddie
Jamie Oddie is best known as the husband of Australian actress Claudia Black, recognized for her roles in science fiction television and film.
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C.
Jeff Corwin
Jeff Corwin is an American wildlife biologist and television host best known for his nature and animal conservation programs on channels like Animal Planet and Discovery.
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D.
Bob Irwin
Bob Irwin is an Australian conservationist and wildlife expert best known as the father of Steve Irwin and the original founder of the Australia Zoo.
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E.
Clark Peterson
Clark Peterson is a film producer best known for his work on the Academy Award–winning biographical drama "Monster" (2003).
- 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: Tim Starling Target entity description: Tim Starling is a software engineer best known for his long-time work as a MediaWiki developer and contributor to the Wikimedia Foundation’s technical infrastructure.
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A.
Santos Irwin
Santos Irwin is the child of American actor and clown Bill Irwin.
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B.
Jamie Oddie
Jamie Oddie is best known as the husband of Australian actress Claudia Black, recognized for her roles in science fiction television and film.
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C.
Jeff Corwin
Jeff Corwin is an American wildlife biologist and television host best known for his nature and animal conservation programs on channels like Animal Planet and Discovery.
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D.
Bob Irwin
Bob Irwin is an Australian conservationist and wildlife expert best known as the father of Steve Irwin and the original founder of the Australia Zoo.
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E.
Clark Peterson
Clark Peterson is a film producer best known for his work on the Academy Award–winning biographical drama "Monster" (2003).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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software engineer ⓘ |
| affiliation | Wikimedia technical community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
MediaWiki core
NERFINISHED
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Wikimedia Foundation technical infrastructure ⓘ |
| employer | Wikimedia Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
open-source software
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software engineering ⓘ web development ⓘ wiki software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
MediaWiki development
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work on Wikimedia Foundation technical infrastructure ⓘ |
| movement |
free culture movement
NERFINISHED
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open-source movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | long-time MediaWiki contributor ⓘ |
| notableWork | MediaWiki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
MediaWiki developer
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software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
JavaScript
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PHP NERFINISHED ⓘ SQL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| softwareEngineeringRole |
architect
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code reviewer ⓘ developer ⓘ |
| softwareProject |
MediaWiki extensions
NERFINISHED
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Wikimedia configuration management NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia deployment tools NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksOn |
performance of Wikimedia sites
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reliability of Wikimedia infrastructure ⓘ scalability of Wikimedia sites ⓘ |
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: Tim Starling Description of subject: Tim Starling is a software engineer best known for his long-time work as a MediaWiki developer and contributor to the Wikimedia Foundation’s technical infrastructure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.