Demis
E200539
artificial intelligence researcher
business executive
computer scientist
entrepreneur
human
video game designer
Demis is the given name of Demis Hassabis, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Demis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1792957 — 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: Demis Context triple: [Demis Hassabis, givenName, Demis]
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A.
Davo
Davo is a common informal nickname or short form of the given name David, often used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Blaise
Blaise is a given name most famously borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
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C.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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E.
Dara
Dara is a given name most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American businessman and CEO of Uber.
- 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: Demis Target entity description: Demis is the given name of Demis Hassabis, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind.
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A.
Davo
Davo is a common informal nickname or short form of the given name David, often used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Blaise
Blaise is a given name most famously borne by the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
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C.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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E.
Dara
Dara is a given name most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American businessman and CEO of Uber.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence researcher
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business executive ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire ⓘ Dan David Prize ⓘ Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal ⓘ Royal Society Mullard Award ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1976-07-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coFounded | DeepMind ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in cognitive neuroscience ⓘ |
| designed | Theme Park (video game) ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University College London
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| employer |
DeepMind
ⓘ
surface form:
Google DeepMind
|
| ethnicOrigin |
Chinese Singaporean
ⓘ
Greek Cypriots ⓘ
surface form:
Greek Cypriot
|
| familyName |
Demis Hassabis
ⓘ
surface form:
Hassabis
|
| fieldOfStudy |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive neuroscience ⓘ computer science ⓘ |
| founded | Elixir Studios ⓘ |
| givenName | Demis self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
Go
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chess ⓘ video game design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
AlphaFold
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AlphaGo ⓘ AlphaZero ⓘ co-founding DeepMind ⓘ leading advances in deep reinforcement learning ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal Academy of Engineering
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Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Demis Hassabis ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
AlphaFold project leadership
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AlphaGo project leadership ⓘ AlphaZero project leadership ⓘ |
| occupation | CEO of DeepMind ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of DeepMind
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co-founder of DeepMind ⓘ |
| workedAt |
Elixir Studios
ⓘ
Lionhead Studios ⓘ |
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: Demis Description of subject: Demis is the given name of Demis Hassabis, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.