Jonathan Sachs
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Jonathan Sachs is an American software developer best known as a co-founder of Lotus Development Corporation and co-creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Sachs canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1490788 — 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: Jonathan Sachs Context triple: [Lotus Development Corporation, foundedBy, Jonathan Sachs]
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A.
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore was a British actor best known for voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Halston Sage
Halston Sage is an American actress best known for her role as Lieutenant Alara Kitan on the science fiction television series "The Orville."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Howard Silverblatt
Howard Silverblatt is the birth name of Howard Da Silva, an American actor and director known for his work in film, theater, and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Paul Rubell
Paul Rubell is an American film editor known for his work on high-profile movies such as "The Insider," "Collateral," and "Transformers."
- 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: Jonathan Sachs Target entity description: Jonathan Sachs is an American software developer best known as a co-founder of Lotus Development Corporation and co-creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
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A.
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore was a British actor best known for voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Halston Sage
Halston Sage is an American actress best known for her role as Lieutenant Alara Kitan on the science fiction television series "The Orville."
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C.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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D.
Howard Silverblatt
Howard Silverblatt is the birth name of Howard Da Silva, an American actor and director known for his work in film, theater, and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Paul Rubell
Paul Rubell is an American film editor known for his work on high-profile movies such as "The Insider," "Collateral," and "Transformers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software company ⓘ software developer ⓘ spreadsheet software ⓘ |
| coCreated | Lotus 1-2-3 ⓘ |
| coFounded | Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developedFor |
IBM PC compatible
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surface form:
IBM PC compatible computers
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| developer | Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| employer | Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer software
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personal computer software ⓘ spreadsheet software ⓘ |
| influenced |
business software industry
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spreadsheet application design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating Lotus 1-2-3
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co-founding Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped popularize spreadsheet software on IBM PC compatibles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lotus 1-2-3
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Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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entrepreneur ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| originalProgrammer | Jonathan Sachs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| partOf | early PC software pioneers ⓘ |
| positionHeld | software architect at Lotus Development Corporation ⓘ |
| product | Lotus 1-2-3 ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed |
C
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surface form:
C programming language
assembly language ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Sachs Description of subject: Jonathan Sachs is an American software developer best known as a co-founder of Lotus Development Corporation and co-creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lotus 1-2-3