Richard Waldinger
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Richard Waldinger is a computer scientist known for his work in automated reasoning and program verification, often in collaboration with Zohar Manna.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Waldinger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2384373 — 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: Richard Waldinger Context triple: [Zohar Manna, coAuthorWith, Richard Waldinger]
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A.
Jack Schwartz
Jack Schwartz was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, parallel computing, and the development of the SETL language.
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B.
John F. McCarthy
John F. McCarthy was a California state legislator and influential political figure from Marin County, recognized for his role in regional infrastructure and public service.
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C.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
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D.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
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E.
Norman Pearlstine
Norman Pearlstine is an American journalist and media executive best known for serving as editor-in-chief of Time Inc. and later as executive editor of The Los Angeles Times.
- 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: Richard Waldinger Target entity description: Richard Waldinger is a computer scientist known for his work in automated reasoning and program verification, often in collaboration with Zohar Manna.
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A.
Jack Schwartz
Jack Schwartz was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, parallel computing, and the development of the SETL language.
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B.
John F. McCarthy
John F. McCarthy was a California state legislator and influential political figure from Marin County, recognized for his role in regional infrastructure and public service.
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C.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
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D.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
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E.
Norman Pearlstine
Norman Pearlstine is an American journalist and media executive best known for serving as editor-in-chief of Time Inc. and later as executive editor of The Los Angeles Times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | computer scientist ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
automated deduction
ⓘ
program synthesis ⓘ |
| field |
automated reasoning
ⓘ
computer science ⓘ program verification ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
software verification ⓘ |
| hasCollaborationTopic |
automated reasoning
ⓘ
program verification ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudentOrCollaborator | Zohar Manna ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
formal methods
ⓘ
logic in computer science ⓘ theorem proving ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
automated reasoning
ⓘ
program verification ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCollaborator | Zohar Manna ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
researcher ⓘ |
| workedWith | Zohar Manna ⓘ |
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: Richard Waldinger Description of subject: Richard Waldinger is a computer scientist known for his work in automated reasoning and program verification, often in collaboration with Zohar Manna.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.