Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.
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Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169595 — 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: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. Context triple: [Edmund M. Clarke, birthName, Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.]
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A.
Charles Ranlett Flint
Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
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B.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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C.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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D.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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E.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
- 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: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. Target entity description: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
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A.
Charles Ranlett Flint
Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
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B.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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C.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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D.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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E.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turing Award laureate
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academic ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicChair | FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
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PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| academicPosition |
assistant professor of computer science at Harvard University
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professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM A.M. Turing Award
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linked to:
Turing Award
ACM Fellow ⓘ ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ⓘ
linked to:
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ CAV Award ⓘ Herbrand Award for Automated Reasoning ⓘ
linked to:
Herbrand Award
IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award ⓘ
linked to:
AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award
LICS Test-of-Time Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1945-07-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Newport News, Virginia, United States
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linked to:
Newport News, Virginia
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| coDeveloperOf |
model checking
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symbolic model checking ⓘ |
| coInventorWith |
E. Allen Emerson
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Joseph Sifakis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2020-12-22 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Richard L. Schwartz ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTitle | Program Schemas, Recursion Schemes and Formal Languages ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Duke University
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University of Virginia ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Clarke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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formal methods ⓘ formal verification ⓘ model checking ⓘ |
| fullName | Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| knownFor |
formal verification of hardware and software systems
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model checking ⓘ symbolic model checking ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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IEEE ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Model Checking (book)
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Symbolic Model Checking (paper) ⓘ
linked to:
Symbolic Model Checking
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| researchInterest |
hardware verification
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software verification ⓘ temporal logic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. Description of subject: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.