Tim Howes
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Tim Howes is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-inventor of the LDAP protocol and a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Howes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2365524 — 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: Tim Howes Context triple: [Loudcloud, coFounder, Tim Howes]
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A.
Danny Howells
Danny Howells is a British DJ and electronic music producer known for his eclectic, progressive house and tech-house sets and long-standing presence in the global club scene.
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B.
Peter Howells
Peter Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname Howells and has achieved sufficient recognition to be distinguished as a bearer of that name.
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C.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
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D.
Ben Shepherd
Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
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E.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
- 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: Tim Howes Target entity description: Tim Howes is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-inventor of the LDAP protocol and a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
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A.
Danny Howells
Danny Howells is a British DJ and electronic music producer known for his eclectic, progressive house and tech-house sets and long-standing presence in the global club scene.
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B.
Peter Howells
Peter Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname Howells and has achieved sufficient recognition to be distinguished as a bearer of that name.
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C.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
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D.
Ben Shepherd
Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
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E.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| coFounded |
ClearStory Data
ⓘ
Loudcloud ⓘ Opsware ⓘ |
| coInvented | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed | University of Michigan LDAP server implementation ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
AOL
ⓘ
ClearStory Data ⓘ Loudcloud ⓘ Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ Opsware ⓘ University of Michigan ⓘ Yahoo! ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
directory services ⓘ internet protocols ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalk | technical conferences on directory services and LDAP ⓘ |
| hasRole |
protocol designer
ⓘ
software architect ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| influenced |
cloud infrastructure management practices
ⓘ
enterprise directory service implementations ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Loudcloud
ⓘ
co-inventing LDAP ⓘ work on directory services at the University of Michigan ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Loudcloud founding team
ⓘ
Opsware leadership team ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped standardize LDAP as an Internet protocol ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Technology Officer at ClearStory Data
ⓘ
Chief Technology Officer of Opsware ⓘ Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo! ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Netscape Directory Server
ⓘ
enterprise systems management software ⓘ |
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: Tim Howes Description of subject: Tim Howes is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-inventor of the LDAP protocol and a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.