Jennifer Widom
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Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering research in database systems and data management, and for her leadership as dean of the Stanford School of Engineering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Widom canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3450756 — 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: Jennifer Widom Context triple: [ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, notableRecipient, Jennifer Widom]
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A.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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B.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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C.
Moni Naor
Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to cryptography and theoretical computer science.
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D.
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd was a pioneering computer scientist best known for her influential work on Internet congestion control and active queue management, including the development of Random Early Detection (RED) algorithms.
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E.
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a prominent cryptographer known for his influential work on the theory and practice of encryption and for advocating the ethical and social responsibilities of cryptography.
- 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: Jennifer Widom Target entity description: Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering research in database systems and data management, and for her leadership as dean of the Stanford School of Engineering.
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A.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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B.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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C.
Moni Naor
Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to cryptography and theoretical computer science.
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D.
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd was a pioneering computer scientist best known for her influential work on Internet congestion control and active queue management, including the development of Random Early Detection (RED) algorithms.
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E.
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a prominent cryptographer known for his influential work on the theory and practice of encryption and for advocating the ethical and social responsibilities of cryptography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Fellow
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ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award ⓘ ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ⓘ
linked to:
ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award
Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Election to the National Academy of Engineering ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Engineering
Election to the National Academy of Sciences ⓘ IEEE Fellow ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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Indiana University Bloomington ⓘ
linked to:
Indiana University
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| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Widom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
active databases
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computer science ⓘ data management ⓘ data streams ⓘ data warehousing ⓘ database systems ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ semi-structured data ⓘ |
| givenName | Jennifer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in engineering education
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online database courses and educational outreach ⓘ pioneering research in database systems ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on active database systems
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research on data stream management ⓘ research on materialized views and data warehousing ⓘ research on semi-structured data and XML data management ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Stanford Department of Computer Science
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Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering ⓘ Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University ⓘ Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Stanford School of Engineering ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California ⓘ |
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: Jennifer Widom Description of subject: Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering research in database systems and data management, and for her leadership as dean of the Stanford School of Engineering.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.