Vince Zampella
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Vince Zampella is an American video game developer and executive best known as the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and a key figure behind several major first-person shooter studios.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vince Zampella canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2495682 — 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: Vince Zampella Context triple: [Infinity Ward, foundedBy, Vince Zampella]
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A.
Ernie Sabella
Ernie Sabella is an American actor and voice actor best known for voicing the warthog Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King franchise.
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B.
Gene Steratore
Gene Steratore is a former NFL and NCAA football official best known as a longtime NFL referee and later rules analyst for CBS Sports.
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C.
Phil Martelli
Phil Martelli is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading Saint Joseph's University's men's basketball program, including an undefeated regular season in 2003–04.
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D.
Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his prolific work in radio, television, and animation, including serving as the original Control Voice on the science fiction series "The Outer Limits."
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E.
Steve Frazelli
Steve Frazelli is the primary antagonist in the 2003 heist film "The Italian Job," a duplicitous thief who betrays his crew to steal their gold.
- 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: Vince Zampella Target entity description: Vince Zampella is an American video game developer and executive best known as the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and a key figure behind several major first-person shooter studios.
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A.
Ernie Sabella
Ernie Sabella is an American actor and voice actor best known for voicing the warthog Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King franchise.
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B.
Gene Steratore
Gene Steratore is a former NFL and NCAA football official best known as a longtime NFL referee and later rules analyst for CBS Sports.
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C.
Phil Martelli
Phil Martelli is an American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading Saint Joseph's University's men's basketball program, including an undefeated regular season in 2003–04.
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D.
Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his prolific work in radio, television, and animation, including serving as the original Control Voice on the science fiction series "The Outer Limits."
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E.
Steve Frazelli
Steve Frazelli is the primary antagonist in the 2003 heist film "The Italian Job," a duplicitous thief who betrays his crew to steal their gold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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business executive ⓘ human ⓘ video game developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Activision Publishing
ⓘ
surface form:
Activision
Electronic Arts ⓘ Infinity Ward ⓘ Respawn Entertainment ⓘ |
| coCreated |
Call of Duty
ⓘ
Call of Duty ⓘ
surface form:
Call of Duty franchise
|
| coFounderOf |
Infinity Ward
ⓘ
Respawn Entertainment ⓘ |
| employer |
Electronic Arts
ⓘ
Infinity Ward ⓘ Respawn Entertainment ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
first-person shooter games
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video game industry ⓘ |
| genreSpecialty | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| givenName | Vince ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
Apex Legends
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Call of Duty ⓘ
surface form:
Call of Duty series
Medal of Honor (video game series) ⓘ
surface form:
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order ⓘ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor ⓘ Titanfall ⓘ
surface form:
Titanfall series
|
| industry | video games ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating the Call of Duty franchise
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first-person shooter games ⓘ |
| name | Vince Zampella self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableRole | key figure in the development of modern military first-person shooters ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apex Legends
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Call of Duty ⓘ Call of Duty 2 ⓘ Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ⓘ Titanfall ⓘ Titanfall 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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video game developer ⓘ video game producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Infinity Ward
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CEO of Respawn Entertainment ⓘ head of DICE Los Angeles ⓘ head of Respawn Entertainment ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Vince Zampella Description of subject: Vince Zampella is an American video game developer and executive best known as the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and a key figure behind several major first-person shooter studios.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.