Eric Harris
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Eric Harris was one of the two students who planned and carried out the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Harris canonical | 5 |
| Eric David Harris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13309796 — 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: Eric Harris Context triple: [Columbine High School massacre, perpetrator, Eric Harris]
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A.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
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B.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman is a British sports broadcaster best known for his work presenting football coverage on BBC television and radio.
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C.
Albert Lambreaux
Albert Lambreaux is a fictional Mardi Gras Indian chief and community leader in post-Katrina New Orleans from the television drama series "Treme."
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D.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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E.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
- 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: Eric Harris Target entity description: Eric Harris was one of the two students who planned and carried out the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.
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A.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
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B.
Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman is a British sports broadcaster best known for his work presenting football coverage on BBC television and radio.
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C.
Albert Lambreaux
Albert Lambreaux is a fictional Mardi Gras Indian chief and community leader in post-Katrina New Orleans from the television drama series "Treme."
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D.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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E.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American student
ⓘ
mass murderer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1981-04-09 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide by gunshot ⓘ |
| coPerpetratorWith | Dylan Klebold ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdContent |
home videos with Dylan Klebold
ⓘ
writings expressing violent ideation ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1999-04-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbine High School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| eventLocation |
Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbine High School
|
| eventStartDate | 1999-04-20 ⓘ |
| failedPlanElement | propane bomb detonation in school cafeteria did not fully explode ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | U.S. Air Force personnel ⓘ |
| fullName |
Eric David Harris
ⓘ
linked to:
Eric Harris
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hadInterest |
firearms
ⓘ
first-person shooter video games ⓘ |
| hasOnlineDiary | personal website with journal entries ⓘ |
| highSchoolClass | senior ⓘ |
| intendedOutcome | mass casualties at Columbine High School ⓘ |
| knownFor | planning Columbine High School shooting ⓘ |
| legalIssue | arrested for theft in 1998 ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| notableFor | Columbine High School massacre ⓘ |
| numberOfVictimsInjured | 20+ ⓘ |
| numberOfVictimsKilled | 13 ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| parent |
Katherine Harris
ⓘ
Wayne Harris ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | Columbine High School massacre ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wichita, Kansas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbine High School
|
| plannedDuration | attack planned for over a year ⓘ |
| plannedWith | Dylan Klebold ⓘ |
| psychologicalProfile | exhibited traits consistent with psychopathy (as described by some researchers) ⓘ |
| residence |
Jefferson County, Colorado, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Jefferson County, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Littleton, Colorado
|
| stateOfEvent | Colorado ⓘ |
| underwent | court-ordered diversion program ⓘ |
| usedWeapon |
explosive devices
ⓘ
firearms ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1999 ⓘ |
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: Eric Harris Description of subject: Eric Harris was one of the two students who planned and carried out the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eric Harris