Douglas Crockford
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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and author best known for popularizing the JSON data format and contributing to JavaScript language development and style guidelines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Crockford canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1869662 — 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: Douglas Crockford Context triple: [JSON, designedBy, Douglas Crockford]
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A.
Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is an American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and a co-founder of the Mozilla project, Mozilla Foundation, and Mozilla Corporation.
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B.
Ian Hickson
Ian Hickson is a prominent web standards editor and software engineer best known for his leading role in developing the HTML5 specification and his work with the WHATWG and W3C.
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C.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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D.
Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett is a prominent free software developer and security expert known for his influential work on Linux, firmware, and secure boot technologies.
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E.
Dave Raggett
Dave Raggett is a British computer scientist and software engineer best known for his pioneering work on HTML and web standards within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- 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: Douglas Crockford Target entity description: Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and author best known for popularizing the JSON data format and contributing to JavaScript language development and style guidelines.
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A.
Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is an American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and a co-founder of the Mozilla project, Mozilla Foundation, and Mozilla Corporation.
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B.
Ian Hickson
Ian Hickson is a prominent web standards editor and software engineer best known for his leading role in developing the HTML5 specification and his work with the WHATWG and W3C.
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C.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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D.
Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett is a prominent free software developer and security expert known for his influential work on Linux, firmware, and secure boot technologies.
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E.
Dave Raggett
Dave Raggett is a British computer scientist and software engineer best known for his pioneering work on HTML and web standards within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
JavaScript developer
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author ⓘ computer programmer ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
ECMAScript language discussions
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linked to:
ECMAScript
standardization of JSON ⓘ |
| developed |
JSLint
ⓘ
JSMin ⓘ |
| employer |
Electric Communities
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Lucasfilm ⓘ Netscape ⓘ
linked to:
Netscape Communications Corporation
Paramount Pictures ⓘ PayPal ⓘ State Software ⓘ Yahoo! ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| familyName | Crockford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
JavaScript
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computer science ⓘ data interchange formats ⓘ programming languages ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas ⓘ |
| influenced |
JavaScript best practices
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web development style guidelines ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Crockford on JavaScript lectures
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JSLint ⓘ JSON ⓘ JavaScript language design influence ⓘ JavaScript style guidelines ⓘ
linked to:
ESLint
JavaScript: The Good Parts ⓘ popularizing the JSON data format ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Douglas Crockford ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableIdea | subset-oriented JavaScript style ("The Good Parts") ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How JavaScript Works
ⓘ
JavaScript: The Good Parts ⓘ The JSON Data Interchange Syntax (RFC 8259 influence) ⓘ
linked to:
RFC 8259
|
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
computer programmer ⓘ software architect ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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Java ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ |
| spokeAt |
Yahoo! Developer Network events
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various JavaScript conferences ⓘ |
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: Douglas Crockford Description of subject: Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and author best known for popularizing the JSON data format and contributing to JavaScript language development and style guidelines.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.