Ravi Sethi
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Ravi Sethi is a computer scientist best known as a co-author of the influential textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the "Dragon Book") on compiler design.
All labels observed (1)
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| Ravi Sethi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1531463 — 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: Ravi Sethi Context triple: [Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, author, Ravi Sethi]
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A.
Rajeev Misra
Rajeev Misra is an Indian-born financier and executive best known for leading SoftBank’s Vision Fund, one of the world’s largest technology investment funds.
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B.
Vijay Vasudevan
Vijay Vasudevan is a computer scientist known for his work in machine learning and systems research, including co-authoring influential papers with Christian Szegedy.
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C.
Raj Subramaniam
Raj Subramaniam is the President and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx Corporation, a leading global logistics and delivery services company.
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D.
Laxman Narasimhan
Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of Starbucks and former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser.
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E.
Bharat Ramaswami
Bharat Ramaswami is an Indian economist known for his research in agricultural economics, development policy, and trade, and for his long association with leading academic institutions in India.
- 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: Ravi Sethi Target entity description: Ravi Sethi is a computer scientist best known as a co-author of the influential textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the "Dragon Book") on compiler design.
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A.
Rajeev Misra
Rajeev Misra is an Indian-born financier and executive best known for leading SoftBank’s Vision Fund, one of the world’s largest technology investment funds.
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B.
Vijay Vasudevan
Vijay Vasudevan is a computer scientist known for his work in machine learning and systems research, including co-authoring influential papers with Christian Szegedy.
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C.
Raj Subramaniam
Raj Subramaniam is the President and Chief Executive Officer of FedEx Corporation, a leading global logistics and delivery services company.
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D.
Laxman Narasimhan
Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of Starbucks and former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser.
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E.
Bharat Ramaswami
Bharat Ramaswami is an Indian economist known for his research in agricultural economics, development policy, and trade, and for his long association with leading academic institutions in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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computer scientist ⓘ textbook ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
"Dragon Book"
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linked to:
Dragon Book
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| coAuthorOf |
"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools"
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linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
the "Dragon Book" ⓘ
linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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| coAuthorWith |
Alfred V. Aho
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Jeffrey D. Ullman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
compilers
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computer science ⓘ programming languages ⓘ |
| genre | computer science textbooks ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
compiler education
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teaching of programming languages ⓘ university curricula in compilers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compiler design
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the "Dragon Book" ⓘ
linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
the textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" ⓘ
linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notability | co-author of a standard reference in compiler design ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools"
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linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
the "Dragon Book" ⓘ
linked to:
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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| occupation |
academic author
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computer scientist ⓘ |
| subject | compiler design ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ravi Sethi Description of subject: Ravi Sethi is a computer scientist best known as a co-author of the influential textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the "Dragon Book") on compiler design.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.