Geoffrey Hinton

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Turing Award laureate artificial intelligence researcher cognitive psychologist computer scientist deep learning pioneer

Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the founding figures of deep learning and modern artificial intelligence.

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Label	Occurrences
Geoffrey Hinton canonical	43
Geoffrey E. Hinton	7
Geoffrey Everest Hinton	1
Hinton	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4580 — 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: Geoffrey Hinton
Context triple: [Turing Award, hasNotableRecipient, Geoffrey Hinton]

A. Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and deep learning pioneer whose work on neural networks and representation learning has been foundational to modern artificial intelligence.
B. Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
C. J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
D. Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
E. Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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: Geoffrey Hinton
Target entity description: Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the founding figures of deep learning and modern artificial intelligence.

A. Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and deep learning pioneer whose work on neural networks and representation learning has been foundational to modern artificial intelligence.
B. Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
C. J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
D. Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
E. Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turing Award laureate ⓘ artificial intelligence researcher ⓘ cognitive psychologist ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ deep learning pioneer ⓘ
academicPosition	Emeritus Professor at University of Toronto ⓘ Professor at University of Toronto ⓘ
almaMater	University of Cambridge ⓘ linked to: Cambridge University University of Edinburgh ⓘ
awardReceived	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ⓘ Herbrand Award ⓘ IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award ⓘ Killam Prize ⓘ Order of Canada ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ
birthDate	1947-12-06 ⓘ
birthPlace	London, England ⓘ
citizenship	Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
coRecipientOf	2018 Turing Award ⓘ linked to: Turing Award
coRecipientWith	Yann LeCun ⓘ Yoshua Bengio ⓘ
degree	BA in Experimental Psychology ⓘ PhD in Artificial Intelligence ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Christopher Longuet-Higgins ⓘ
employer	Google ⓘ Google Brain ⓘ University of Toronto ⓘ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence ⓘ
familyName	Hinton ⓘ linked to: Geoffrey Hinton
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ deep learning ⓘ machine learning ⓘ
fullName	Geoffrey Everest Hinton ⓘ linked to: Geoffrey Hinton
givenName	Geoffrey ⓘ
hasConcern	risks of advanced artificial intelligence ⓘ
hasSpokenAbout	existential risks from AI ⓘ regulation of AI technologies ⓘ
knownFor	Boltzmann machines ⓘ backpropagation in neural networks ⓘ contributions to computer vision using deep learning ⓘ contributions to speech recognition using deep learning ⓘ deep belief networks ⓘ linked to: Boltzmann machines deep learning ⓘ restricted Boltzmann machines ⓘ linked to: Boltzmann machines
memberOf	Royal Society ⓘ Royal Society of Canada ⓘ linked to: Royal Society of Canada Fellowship
notableStudent	Ilya Sutskever ⓘ Ruslan Salakhutdinov ⓘ Yoshua Bengio ⓘ
notableWork	“A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets” ⓘ “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” ⓘ
position	Chief Scientific Advisor at Vector Institute ⓘ Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google ⓘ
researchInterest	distributed representations ⓘ neural networks ⓘ representation learning ⓘ unsupervised learning ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Turing Award → hasNotableRecipient → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Geoffrey Hinton → fullName → Geoffrey Everest Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton → familyName → Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Yann LeCun → turingAwardCoRecipient → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Boltzmann machines → introducedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence → associatedWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence → notableResearcher → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Yoshua Bengio → TuringAwardCoRecipientWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

subject linked to: Yoshua

A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets → author → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

subject linked to: “A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets”

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Ruslan Salakhutdinov → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Ruslan Salakhutdinov → notableStudentOf → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Ilya Sutskever → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Ilya Sutskever → collaboratedWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Ilya Sutskever → influencedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Learning representations by back-propagating errors → author → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

subject linked to: “Learning representations by back-propagating errors”

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Yann LeCun → sharesTuringAwardWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

subject linked to: Yann

Geoffrey → hasNotableBearer → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Jimmy Ba → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Jimmy Ba → hasAcademicAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Jimmy Ba → influencedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Deep belief networks → developedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Terrence Sejnowski → coAuthor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research → hasNotableLaureates → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Simon Osindero → coAuthorWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Simon Osindero → hasAcademicAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Simon Osindero → influencedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

AlexNet → developer → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

DistBelief → authorAssociated → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science → notableRecipient → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

IJCAI Award for Research Excellence → notableRecipient → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

David E. Rumelhart → coAuthor → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Alex Krizhevsky → coAuthorWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Alex Krizhevsky → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

RMSProp → introducedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Hinton → usedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Hinton → hasNotableBearer → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Layer Normalization → introducedBy → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Volodymyr Mnih → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Max Welling → coAuthorWith → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

NeurIPS Test of Time Award → notableRecipient → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

CIFAR-10 → developedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

CIFAR-100 → developedBy → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Aidan N. Gomez → studiedUnder → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

PDP Research Group → hasMember → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition → hasRecipient → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks → hasAuthor → Geoffrey E. Hinton ⓘ

linked to: Geoffrey Hinton

DNNresearch Inc. → coFounder → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

DNNresearch Inc. → notableEmployee → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Jimmy Lei Ba → doctoralAdvisor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

Jimmy Lei Ba → hasCoAuthor → Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ

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