Dan Grossman
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Dan Grossman is a computer scientist and professor known for his work in programming languages and software engineering.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Grossman canonical | 3 |
| David Notkin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2206661 — 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: Dan Grossman Context triple: [Cyclone, designedBy, Dan Grossman]
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A.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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B.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
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C.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
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D.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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E.
David Bartel
David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
- 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: Dan Grossman Target entity description: Dan Grossman is a computer scientist and professor known for his work in programming languages and software engineering.
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A.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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B.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
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C.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
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D.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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E.
David Bartel
David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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university professor ⓘ |
| affiliation | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Washington ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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programming languages ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
concurrent programming
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parallel programming ⓘ program verification ⓘ programming language design ⓘ software engineering education ⓘ software reliability ⓘ type systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
computer science education
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work on programming languages ⓘ work on software engineering ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
materials for the Coursera course 'Programming Languages'
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online lectures on programming languages ⓘ research papers on type systems and concurrency ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of computer science ⓘ |
| role |
course designer
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educator ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| teaches |
data structures and algorithms
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programming languages ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Seattle, Washington
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linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
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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: Dan Grossman Description of subject: Dan Grossman is a computer scientist and professor known for his work in programming languages and software engineering.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dan Grossman