Crockford
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Crockford is a surname most notably associated with Douglas Crockford, an influential American computer programmer known for his work on JSON and JavaScript.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crockford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8756035 — 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: Crockford Context triple: [Douglas Crockford, familyName, Crockford]
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A.
Selden
Selden is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.
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B.
Goodrich
Goodrich is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, business, and the arts.
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C.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
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D.
Sandiacre
Sandiacre is a village and civil parish in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated near the border with Nottinghamshire.
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E.
Brydges
Brydges is the surname of a prominent British aristocratic family that included James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, a notable early 18th-century nobleman and patron of the arts.
- 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: Crockford Target entity description: Crockford is a surname most notably associated with Douglas Crockford, an influential American computer programmer known for his work on JSON and JavaScript.
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A.
Selden
Selden is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.
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B.
Goodrich
Goodrich is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, business, and the arts.
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C.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
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D.
Sandiacre
Sandiacre is a village and civil parish in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated near the border with Nottinghamshire.
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E.
Brydges
Brydges is the surname of a prominent British aristocratic family that included James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, a notable early 18th-century nobleman and patron of the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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computer programmer ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| authorOf | JavaScript: The Good Parts ⓘ |
| contributedTo | standardization of JSON ⓘ |
| developed |
JSLint
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JSMin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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programming languages ⓘ software development ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Douglas Crockford ⓘ |
| influenced | JavaScript best practices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Douglas Crockford JSON specification
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JSLint ⓘ JSMin ⓘ JSON ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | JavaScript: The Good Parts ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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software developer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | JavaScript ⓘ |
| promoted | use of JSON as a data interchange format ⓘ |
| speaksAbout |
JavaScript design patterns
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programming language design ⓘ software quality ⓘ |
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: Crockford Description of subject: Crockford is a surname most notably associated with Douglas Crockford, an influential American computer programmer known for his work on JSON and JavaScript.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.