Steve Wozniak
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Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer and programmer best known as the co-founder and technical mastermind behind the early Apple computers that helped launch the personal computing revolution.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Wozniak canonical | 40 |
| Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak | 2 |
| Stephen Gary Wozniak | 2 |
| Woz | 2 |
| Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak | 1 |
| Wozniak | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T165324 — 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: Steve Wozniak Context triple: [Apple Inc., foundedBy, Steve Wozniak]
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A.
Paul Jobs
Paul Jobs was the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and a machinist and mechanic who strongly influenced Steve’s early interest in electronics and craftsmanship.
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B.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., widely recognized for revolutionizing personal computing, smartphones, digital music, and animated films.
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C.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
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D.
Ronald Wayne
Ronald Wayne is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the three co-founders of Apple Inc., who later sold his stake in the company early on.
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E.
Robert N. Noyce
Robert N. Noyce was an American physicist, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, often called the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" for his pivotal role in the semiconductor industry.
- 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: Steve Wozniak Target entity description: Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer and programmer best known as the co-founder and technical mastermind behind the early Apple computers that helped launch the personal computing revolution.
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A.
Paul Jobs
Paul Jobs was the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and a machinist and mechanic who strongly influenced Steve’s early interest in electronics and craftsmanship.
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B.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., widely recognized for revolutionizing personal computing, smartphones, digital music, and animated films.
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C.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
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D.
Ronald Wayne
Ronald Wayne is an American entrepreneur best known as one of the three co-founders of Apple Inc., who later sold his stake in the company early on.
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E.
Robert N. Noyce
Robert N. Noyce was an American physicist, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, often called the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" for his pivotal role in the semiconductor industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Steve Wozniak Description of subject: Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer and programmer best known as the co-founder and technical mastermind behind the early Apple computers that helped launch the personal computing revolution.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jobs (2013 film)
this entity surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Woz
this entity surface form:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
subject surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
subject surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Woz
subject surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Wozniak
subject surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
this entity surface form:
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak
subject surface form:
Steve Jobs (2015 film)
subject surface form:
Apple Inc.