Postel
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Postel is a surname most prominently associated with Jon Postel, a pioneering computer scientist and key architect of the early Internet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Postel canonical | 6 |
| Jonathan Bruce Postel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1054595 — 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: Postel Context triple: [Jon Postel, familyName, Postel]
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A.
Ray Tomlinson
Ray Tomlinson was an American computer programmer best known for inventing networked email and introducing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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B.
Ralph Tomlinson
Ralph Tomlinson was an 18th-century English lawyer and poet best known for writing the original lyrics to the popular drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," whose melody later became the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
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D.
Robert Sproull
Robert Sproull is an American computer scientist and technology executive best known for his leadership role at Sun Microsystems and his contributions to computer graphics and systems research.
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E.
Kamensky
Kamensky is a Russian surname most notably associated with former professional ice hockey player Valeri Kamensky.
- 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: Postel Target entity description: Postel is a surname most prominently associated with Jon Postel, a pioneering computer scientist and key architect of the early Internet.
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A.
Ray Tomlinson
Ray Tomlinson was an American computer programmer best known for inventing networked email and introducing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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B.
Ralph Tomlinson
Ralph Tomlinson was an 18th-century English lawyer and poet best known for writing the original lyrics to the popular drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," whose melody later became the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
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D.
Robert Sproull
Robert Sproull is an American computer scientist and technology executive best known for his leadership role at Sun Microsystems and his contributions to computer graphics and systems research.
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E.
Kamensky
Kamensky is a Russian surname most notably associated with former professional ice hockey player Valeri Kamensky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French linguist
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computer scientist ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ software design principle ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
robustness principle
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linked to:
Robustness principle
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| appliesTo | Internet protocol implementations ⓘ |
| coined |
Postel’s robustness principle
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linked to:
Postel’s law
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| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Internet architecture
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astronomy ⓘ computer networking ⓘ linguistics ⓘ oriental studies ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
French
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German ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Georg Wilhelm Postel
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Georg Wilhelm Postel (German painter) ⓘ Gert Postel ⓘ Gert Postel (German impostor) ⓘ Guillaume Postel ⓘ Guillaume Postel (French linguist) ⓘ
linked to:
Guillaume Postel
Jon Postel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
IANA stewardship
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Internet protocol design ⓘ Postel’s law ⓘ design of the early Internet ⓘ editing the RFC series ⓘ impersonating a medical doctor ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Internet Architecture Board
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Internet Engineering Task Force ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jon Postel ⓘ |
| occupation |
Jesuit
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diplomat ⓘ painter ⓘ philologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of IANA
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RFC Editor ⓘ |
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: Postel Description of subject: Postel is a surname most prominently associated with Jon Postel, a pioneering computer scientist and key architect of the early Internet.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.