Hans Reiser
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Hans Reiser is an American computer programmer best known for creating the ReiserFS file system for the Linux operating system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hans Reiser canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1907652 — 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: Hans Reiser Context triple: [ReiserFS, originalAuthor, Hans Reiser]
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A.
Karl Hanke
Karl Hanke was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as the last Reichsführer-SS, leading the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the final days of World War II.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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D.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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E.
Newton Geiszler
Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist from the Pacific Rim franchise who works to understand and combat the monstrous creatures threatening humanity.
- 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: Hans Reiser Target entity description: Hans Reiser is an American computer programmer best known for creating the ReiserFS file system for the Linux operating system.
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A.
Karl Hanke
Karl Hanke was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as the last Reichsführer-SS, leading the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the final days of World War II.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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D.
Victor Kubicek
Victor Kubicek is a film producer best known for co-producing the science fiction action movie "Terminator Salvation."
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E.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux file system developer
ⓘ
computer programmer ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Linux operating system
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU/Linux
open-source software ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Linux kernel
ⓘ
journaling file systems ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Namesys ⓘ |
| familyName | Reiser ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Linux kernel development
ⓘ
computer science ⓘ file systems ⓘ |
| founded | Namesys ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Hans ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing the ReiserFS file system
ⓘ
developing the Reiser4 file system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Hans Reiser ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | created one of the first journaling file systems for Linux widely used in early 2000s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Reiser4
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ReiserFS ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed | C ⓘ |
| softwareDeveloped |
Reiser4
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ReiserFS ⓘ |
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: Hans Reiser Description of subject: Hans Reiser is an American computer programmer best known for creating the ReiserFS file system for the Linux operating system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.