David Flanagan
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David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Flanagan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398725 — 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: David Flanagan Context triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, David Flanagan]
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A.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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B.
David Heitner
David Heitner is a film editor known for his work on the South African musical drama film "Sarafina!".
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C.
Michael Feathers
Michael Feathers is a software engineer, consultant, and author known for his influential work on legacy code, refactoring, and improving software design and maintainability.
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D.
Eric Evans
Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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E.
Dan Goldberg
Dan Goldberg is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "The Hangover."
- 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: David Flanagan Target entity description: David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
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A.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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B.
David Heitner
David Heitner is a film editor known for his work on the South African musical drama film "Sarafina!".
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C.
Michael Feathers
Michael Feathers is a software engineer, consultant, and author known for his influential work on legacy code, refactoring, and improving software design and maintainability.
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D.
Eric Evans
Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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E.
Dan Goldberg
Dan Goldberg is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the hit movie "The Hangover."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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software developer ⓘ technical author ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| contributedTo |
MDN Web Docs
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surface form:
Mozilla Developer Network documentation
|
| education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Mozilla ⓘ |
| field |
JavaScript
ⓘ
computer programming ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| genre |
computer programming literature
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technical literature ⓘ |
| hasEditionOfWork |
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
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surface form:
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (multiple editions)
|
| hasWorkType |
API reference
ⓘ
pocket reference ⓘ programming language guide ⓘ |
| hasWritingStyle | technical and explanatory ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor | O'Reilly Media ⓘ |
| influenced |
JavaScript developers
ⓘ
web development education ⓘ |
| knownFor |
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
ⓘ
programming books ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
MDN Web Docs
ⓘ
surface form:
comprehensive JavaScript reference
|
| notableWork |
Java in a Nutshell
ⓘ
JavaScript Pocket Reference ⓘ JavaScript: The Definitive Guide ⓘ JavaScript: The Definitive Guide ⓘ
surface form:
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition
|
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ technical writer ⓘ |
| publisher | O'Reilly Media ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
JavaScript reference documentation
ⓘ
reference-style programming books ⓘ |
| workedOn |
SpiderMonkey
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surface form:
SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
|
| writesAbout |
Java programming
ⓘ
JavaScript programming ⓘ programming language features ⓘ software APIs ⓘ web development ⓘ web standards ⓘ |
| writesForAudience |
software developers
ⓘ
web programmers ⓘ |
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: David Flanagan Description of subject: David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.