Max Howell
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Max Howell is a British software developer best known as the original creator of the popular macOS package manager Homebrew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Max Howell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1936214 — 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: Max Howell Context triple: [Homebrew, createdBy, Max Howell]
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A.
Michelle Stevens
Michelle Stevens is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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B.
Jane Hanson
Jane Hanson is a British academic leader who serves as the ceremonial head (Chancellor) of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Catherine Willows
Catherine Willows is a seasoned and intuitive crime-scene investigator and former showgirl who serves as a central forensic expert and leader in the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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D.
Laurene Powell
Laurene Powell is an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the founder of the Emerson Collective.
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E.
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager is an American television personality, author, and journalist who co-hosts NBC’s "Today with Hoda & Jenna" and is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush.
- 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: Max Howell Target entity description: Max Howell is a British software developer best known as the original creator of the popular macOS package manager Homebrew.
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A.
Michelle Stevens
Michelle Stevens is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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B.
Jane Hanson
Jane Hanson is a British academic leader who serves as the ceremonial head (Chancellor) of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Catherine Willows
Catherine Willows is a seasoned and intuitive crime-scene investigator and former showgirl who serves as a central forensic expert and leader in the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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D.
Laurene Powell
Laurene Powell is an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the founder of the Emerson Collective.
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E.
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager is an American television personality, author, and journalist who co-hosts NBC’s "Today with Hoda & Jenna" and is the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
person ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employerHistory |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
various technology companies ⓘ |
| field | software engineering ⓘ |
| hasCreated |
Homebrew package manager
ⓘ
linked to:
Homebrew
|
| hasEmployer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| influenced | macOS developer tooling ecosystem ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Debian APT
ⓘ
linked to:
apt-get
MacPorts ⓘ |
| isLivingPerson | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating Homebrew
ⓘ
macOS package management ⓘ |
| name | Max Howell ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableQuoteContext | Apple hiring rejection referencing Homebrew usage by engineers ⓘ |
| notableWork | Homebrew ⓘ |
| occupation | software developer ⓘ |
| openSourceContributor | true ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFocus | macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed |
C
ⓘ
Ruby ⓘ |
| role | original creator of Homebrew ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Twitter
ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| softwareDevelopmentFocus |
developer tools
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ |
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: Max Howell Description of subject: Max Howell is a British software developer best known as the original creator of the popular macOS package manager Homebrew.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.