Kristian Høgsberg
E289056
Danish person
Wayland compositor
computer programmer
display server protocol
person
software engineer
Kristian Høgsberg is a Danish software engineer best known as the original creator and lead developer of the Wayland display server protocol used in Linux and other Unix-like systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kristian Høgsberg canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2629115 — 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: Kristian Høgsberg Context triple: [Wayland, developer, Kristian Høgsberg]
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A.
Kristian Andersen
Kristian Andersen is a prominent Danish-American evolutionary biologist and infectious disease researcher known for his work on viral genomics and the origins and spread of emerging pathogens.
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B.
Markus Rygaard
Markus Rygaard is a Danish actor best known for his leading role as a troubled schoolboy in the Oscar-winning film "In a Better World."
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C.
Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor known internationally for his roles in European cinema and major Hollywood films, including the James Bond series.
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D.
Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Kristian Eidnes Andersen is a Danish film composer and sound designer known for his atmospheric scores and collaborations with prominent European directors.
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E.
Christoffer Reedtz
Christoffer Reedtz is a Danish businessman and football data analyst best known as the owner of English football club Notts County.
- 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: Kristian Høgsberg Target entity description: Kristian Høgsberg is a Danish software engineer best known as the original creator and lead developer of the Wayland display server protocol used in Linux and other Unix-like systems.
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A.
Kristian Andersen
Kristian Andersen is a prominent Danish-American evolutionary biologist and infectious disease researcher known for his work on viral genomics and the origins and spread of emerging pathogens.
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B.
Markus Rygaard
Markus Rygaard is a Danish actor best known for his leading role as a troubled schoolboy in the Oscar-winning film "In a Better World."
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C.
Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor known internationally for his roles in European cinema and major Hollywood films, including the James Bond series.
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D.
Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Kristian Eidnes Andersen is a Danish film composer and sound designer known for his atmospheric scores and collaborations with prominent European directors.
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E.
Christoffer Reedtz
Christoffer Reedtz is a Danish businessman and football data analyst best known as the owner of English football club Notts County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish person
ⓘ
Wayland compositor ⓘ computer programmer ⓘ display server protocol ⓘ person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| creator | Kristian Høgsberg ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
ⓘ
Intel ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
Red Hat ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer graphics
ⓘ
display server protocols ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
Linux graphics stack
ⓘ
Mesa 3D ⓘ Wayland ⓘ Weston ⓘ |
| influenced |
Linux desktop graphics stack
ⓘ
linked to:
Linux graphics stack
modern Wayland compositors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the Wayland display server protocol
ⓘ
leading development of the Wayland display server protocol ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Danish
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Wayland display server protocol
ⓘ
linked to:
Wayland
|
| notableWork |
Wayland
ⓘ
Weston reference compositor ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ |
| operatingSystemDomain |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| softwareDevelopmentStyle | open-source ⓘ |
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: Kristian Høgsberg Description of subject: Kristian Høgsberg is a Danish software engineer best known as the original creator and lead developer of the Wayland display server protocol used in Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.