Mike Shapiro
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Mike Shapiro is a software engineer best known for his key role in designing and developing the DTrace dynamic tracing framework for Solaris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Shapiro canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3245485 — 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: Mike Shapiro Context triple: [DTrace, notableContributor, Mike Shapiro]
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A.
Jamie S. Gorelick
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who has held prominent roles in government, law, and public policy.
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B.
Thomas P. DiNapoli
Thomas P. DiNapoli is an American politician and public official who has long served as New York State Comptroller, overseeing the state’s finances, pension fund, and fiscal accountability.
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C.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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D.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
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E.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
- 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: Mike Shapiro Target entity description: Mike Shapiro is a software engineer best known for his key role in designing and developing the DTrace dynamic tracing framework for Solaris.
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A.
Jamie S. Gorelick
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who has held prominent roles in government, law, and public policy.
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B.
Thomas P. DiNapoli
Thomas P. DiNapoli is an American politician and public official who has long served as New York State Comptroller, overseeing the state’s finances, pension fund, and fiscal accountability.
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C.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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D.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
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E.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
dynamic tracing framework ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Solaris
ⓘ
linked to:
Solaris operating system
|
| designed | DTrace ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Solaris
ⓘ
linked to:
Solaris operating system
|
| developed | DTrace ⓘ |
| developer | Mike Shapiro ⓘ |
| employer | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dynamic tracing
ⓘ
operating systems ⓘ system observability ⓘ |
| knownFor |
DTrace
ⓘ
dynamic tracing framework for Solaris ⓘ |
| notableWork |
DTrace dynamic tracing framework
ⓘ
linked to:
DTrace
|
| occupation | software engineer ⓘ |
| role |
key designer of DTrace
ⓘ
key developer of DTrace ⓘ |
| workedOn | Solaris operating system ⓘ |
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: Mike Shapiro Description of subject: Mike Shapiro is a software engineer best known for his key role in designing and developing the DTrace dynamic tracing framework for Solaris.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mike Shapiro