Stepstone
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Stepstone is a company that employed computer scientist Brad Cox, co-creator of the Objective-C programming language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stepstone canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9004207 — 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: Stepstone Context triple: [Brad Cox, employer, Stepstone]
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A.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
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B.
Wain Stones
Wain Stones is a distinctive gritstone rock outcrop on the Bleaklow plateau in England’s Peak District, popular with hikers for its striking formations and expansive moorland views.
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C.
South Brink
South Brink is a historic riverside street in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, known for its elegant Georgian architecture overlooking the River Nene.
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D.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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E.
Stone Junction
Stone Junction is a music project or release by the hip hop duo Audio Push, showcasing their style and artistic identity.
- 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: Stepstone Target entity description: Stepstone is a company that employed computer scientist Brad Cox, co-creator of the Objective-C programming language.
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A.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
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B.
Wain Stones
Wain Stones is a distinctive gritstone rock outcrop on the Bleaklow plateau in England’s Peak District, popular with hikers for its striking formations and expansive moorland views.
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C.
South Brink
South Brink is a historic riverside street in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, known for its elegant Georgian architecture overlooking the River Nene.
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D.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
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E.
Stone Junction
Stone Junction is a music project or release by the hip hop duo Audio Push, showcasing their style and artistic identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ programming language ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Objective-C ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employed | Brad Cox ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| notableEmployee | Brad Cox ⓘ |
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: Stepstone Description of subject: Stepstone is a company that employed computer scientist Brad Cox, co-creator of the Objective-C programming language.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.