Herbert Sutter
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Herbert Sutter is a prominent computer scientist and software developer best known for his influential work on C++ standards, concurrency, and modern programming practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert Sutter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499302 — 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: Herbert Sutter Context triple: [Sutter, notableBearer, Herbert Sutter]
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A.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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B.
Sanford Rothenberg
Sanford Rothenberg was the second husband of actress Fay Wray, known primarily for his marriage to the iconic King Kong star.
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C.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
W. Craig Jelinek
W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
- 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: Herbert Sutter Target entity description: Herbert Sutter is a prominent computer scientist and software developer best known for his influential work on C++ standards, concurrency, and modern programming practices.
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A.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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B.
Sanford Rothenberg
Sanford Rothenberg was the second husband of actress Fay Wray, known primarily for his marriage to the iconic King Kong star.
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C.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
W. Craig Jelinek
W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
C++ expert
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author ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ conference speaker ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| blogURL | https://herbsutter.com ⓘ |
| employer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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concurrent programming ⓘ programming languages ⓘ software engineering ⓘ systems programming ⓘ |
| focus |
evolution of the C++ language
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guidelines for modern C++ usage ⓘ safe and efficient concurrency in C++ ⓘ |
| hasBlog |
Sutter’s Mill
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linked to:
Sutter's Mill
|
| hasInfluenced |
C++ best practices
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C++ concurrency design ⓘ modern C++ idioms ⓘ |
| hasSpokenAt |
ACCU conference
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C++Now conference ⓘ CppCon conference ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
C/C++ Users Journal
ⓘ
Dr. Dobb's Journal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
C++ coding standards
ⓘ
C++ committee leadership ⓘ C++ programming language ⓘ
linked to:
C++
C++ standardization ⓘ concurrency in C++ ⓘ modern C++ programming practices ⓘ |
| language |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| name |
Herb Sutter
ⓘ
Herbert Sutter ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
C++ Coding Standards
ⓘ
Effective Concurrency ⓘ Exceptional C++ ⓘ Exceptional C++ Style ⓘ Guru of the Week ⓘ More Exceptional C++ ⓘ
linked to:
Exceptional C++
The Free Lunch Is Over ⓘ |
| occupation | chair of the ISO C++ standards committee ⓘ |
| role |
convener of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ standards committee
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software architect at Microsoft ⓘ |
| specialization |
C++ language design
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concurrency and parallelism ⓘ software performance ⓘ |
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: Herbert Sutter Description of subject: Herbert Sutter is a prominent computer scientist and software developer best known for his influential work on C++ standards, concurrency, and modern programming practices.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Herbert Sutter