Terry Davis
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computer programmer
human
operating system
operating system developer
programming language
software engineer
Terry Davis was an American programmer best known for creating the operating system TempleOS and for his eccentric online presence influenced by mental illness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terry Davis canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5990005 — 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: Terry Davis Context triple: [Terry Davis, name, Terry Davis]
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A.
Terry Davis
Terry Davis is a British Labour politician who served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe and was previously a long-standing Member of Parliament in the UK.
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B.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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C.
Terry Porter
Terry Porter is a former NBA point guard best known for his leadership and clutch play with the Portland Trail Blazers during their successful late-1980s and early-1990s seasons.
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D.
Terry Chambers
Terry Chambers is an English drummer best known as the original percussionist for the new wave band XTC, contributing to their distinctive sound during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Terry Martin
Terry Martin is an American local government official who has served as the mayor of Moraine, Ohio.
- 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: Terry Davis Target entity description: Terry Davis was an American programmer best known for creating the operating system TempleOS and for his eccentric online presence influenced by mental illness.
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A.
Terry Davis
Terry Davis is a British Labour politician who served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe and was previously a long-standing Member of Parliament in the UK.
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B.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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C.
Terry Porter
Terry Porter is a former NBA point guard best known for his leadership and clutch play with the Portland Trail Blazers during their successful late-1980s and early-1990s seasons.
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D.
Terry Chambers
Terry Chambers is an English drummer best known as the original percussionist for the new wave band XTC, contributing to their distinctive sound during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Terry Martin
Terry Martin is an American local government official who has served as the mayor of Moraine, Ohio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
human ⓘ operating system ⓘ operating system developer ⓘ programming language ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| alias |
Terry A. Davis
ⓘ
Terry Davis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
being struck by a train
ⓘ
train accident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
HolyC
ⓘ
TempleOS ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-12-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-08-11 ⓘ |
| describedAs | biblical-themed operating system ⓘ |
| developer |
Terry A. Davis
ⓘ
Terry A. Davis ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Arizona State University ⓘ |
| employer | Ticketmaster ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer programming
ⓘ
operating systems ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| fullName | Terrence Andrew Davis ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Terrence ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
mental illness
ⓘ
religious experiences ⓘ |
| internetPresence |
IRC
ⓘ
YouTube ⓘ online forums ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| license | public domain ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | schizophrenia ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating TempleOS
ⓘ
eccentric online presence ⓘ idiosyncratic religious statements ⓘ |
| notableWork | TempleOS ⓘ |
| occupation |
programmer
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| operatingSystemDeveloped | TempleOS ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Milwaukee metropolitan area
ⓘ
West Allis, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ
linked to:
West Allis
|
| placeOfDeath |
The Dalles, Oregon, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dalles, Oregon
|
| programmingLanguageUsed | HolyC ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousTheme | Judeo-Christian ⓘ |
| studied | electrical engineering ⓘ |
| targetPlatform | x86-64 ⓘ |
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: Terry Davis Description of subject: Terry Davis was an American programmer best known for creating the operating system TempleOS and for his eccentric online presence influenced by mental illness.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Louden Swain in Vision Quest
subject linked to:
Terry Davis
subject linked to:
Louden Swain (novel character)