Guillaume Provost
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Guillaume Provost is a Canadian video game developer best known as the founder and creative lead of Compulsion Games, the studio behind titles like Contrast and We Happy Few.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guillaume Provost canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11249942 — 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)
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Target entity: Guillaume Provost Context triple: [Compulsion Games, foundedBy, Guillaume Provost]
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A.
Étienne Provost
Étienne Provost was a 19th-century French-Canadian fur trapper and explorer of the American West, particularly the regions that are now Utah and Colorado.
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B.
Philippe Chabot de Brion
Philippe Chabot de Brion was a prominent 16th-century French nobleman, naval commander, and close confidant of King Francis I who played a key role in France’s maritime and political affairs.
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C.
Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge is a French software engineer best known as the longtime project lead and advocate of the Groovy programming language.
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D.
Guillaume-Martin Couture
Guillaume-Martin Couture was a 19th-century French architect best known for his work on Parisian religious architecture, including the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine.
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E.
François Lemoyne
François Lemoyne was an influential early 18th-century French Rococo painter renowned for his grand decorative ceiling works at the Palace of Versailles.
- 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: Guillaume Provost Target entity description: Guillaume Provost is a Canadian video game developer best known as the founder and creative lead of Compulsion Games, the studio behind titles like Contrast and We Happy Few.
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A.
Étienne Provost
Étienne Provost was a 19th-century French-Canadian fur trapper and explorer of the American West, particularly the regions that are now Utah and Colorado.
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B.
Philippe Chabot de Brion
Philippe Chabot de Brion was a prominent 16th-century French nobleman, naval commander, and close confidant of King Francis I who played a key role in France’s maritime and political affairs.
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C.
Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge is a French software engineer best known as the longtime project lead and advocate of the Groovy programming language.
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D.
Guillaume-Martin Couture
Guillaume-Martin Couture was a 19th-century French architect best known for his work on Parisian religious architecture, including the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine.
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E.
François Lemoyne
François Lemoyne was an influential early 18th-century French Rococo painter renowned for his grand decorative ceiling works at the Palace of Versailles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian person
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person ⓘ video game ⓘ video game ⓘ video game developer ⓘ video game developer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| creativeDirector |
Guillaume Provost
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Guillaume Provost ⓘ |
| developer |
Compulsion Games
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Compulsion Games ⓘ |
| developerOf |
Contrast
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We Happy Few ⓘ |
| employer | Compulsion Games ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | video game industry ⓘ |
| founded | Compulsion Games ⓘ |
| genre | independent video games ⓘ |
| hasRole |
creative lead
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studio founder ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Montreal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Contrast
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We Happy Few ⓘ founding Compulsion Games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Contrast
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We Happy Few ⓘ |
| occupation |
creative director
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game designer ⓘ video game developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
creative lead at Compulsion Games
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founder of Compulsion Games ⓘ |
| workLocation | Montreal ⓘ |
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: Guillaume Provost Description of subject: Guillaume Provost is a Canadian video game developer best known as the founder and creative lead of Compulsion Games, the studio behind titles like Contrast and We Happy Few.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.