Greg Morrisett
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Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
All labels observed (1)
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| Greg Morrisett canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2206659 — 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: Greg Morrisett Context triple: [Cyclone, designedBy, Greg Morrisett]
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A.
Michael Zager
Michael Zager is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work in disco and pop music, including the hit "Let's All Chant."
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B.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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C.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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D.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
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E.
Ed Stasium
Ed Stasium is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work with influential rock and punk bands such as the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Living Colour.
- 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: Greg Morrisett Target entity description: Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
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A.
Michael Zager
Michael Zager is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work in disco and pop music, including the hit "Let's All Chant."
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B.
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips is the sadistic, toy-destroying neighborhood bully who serves as the primary human antagonist in Pixar's original Toy Story film.
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C.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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D.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
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E.
Ed Stasium
Ed Stasium is an American record producer and engineer best known for his work with influential rock and punk bands such as the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Living Colour.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ |
| academicTitle | Professor ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
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| award | ACM Fellow ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of proof-carrying code techniques
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development of typed assembly language ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
Cornell University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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programming languages ⓘ type systems ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| honor | ACM Fellow ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Robert Harper
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type theory community ⓘ |
| knownFor |
design of safe and secure systems
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research on certified compilation ⓘ research on memory safety ⓘ research on proof-carrying code ⓘ research on software security ⓘ work on programming language safety ⓘ work on type-based security ⓘ work on typed intermediate languages ⓘ |
| name | Greg Morrisett ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Dan Grossman
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David Walker ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on secure compilation
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research on type-safe programming languages ⓘ |
| organizationMembership | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| position | Dean of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell University ⓘ |
| previousPosition | Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University ⓘ |
| researchArea |
compilers
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formal verification ⓘ programming language design ⓘ software security ⓘ type theory ⓘ |
| role | Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University ⓘ |
| teachingArea |
programming languages
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software security ⓘ type systems ⓘ |
| thesisAdvisor | Robert Harper ⓘ |
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: Greg Morrisett Description of subject: Greg Morrisett is a computer scientist known for his work on programming languages and type systems, particularly in the design of safe and secure systems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
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hasFormerHolder
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Greg Morrisett
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