David DeWitt
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David DeWitt is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in database systems and query processing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David DeWitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3450759 — 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: David DeWitt Context triple: [ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, notableRecipient, David DeWitt]
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A.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
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B.
Bryan DeWitt
Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
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C.
Max Detweiler
Max Detweiler is a charming, opportunistic music promoter and family friend in the musical and film "The Sound of Music," known for his wit and pragmatic attitude amid the rise of Nazism.
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D.
Rick DeWitt
Rick DeWitt is a philosopher known for his work in logic and the philosophy of science, including authorship of accessible textbooks in these areas.
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- 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: David DeWitt Target entity description: David DeWitt is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in database systems and query processing.
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A.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
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B.
Bryan DeWitt
Bryan DeWitt is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the De Witt surname.
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C.
Max Detweiler
Max Detweiler is a charming, opportunistic music promoter and family friend in the musical and film "The Sound of Music," known for his wit and pragmatic attitude amid the rise of Nazism.
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D.
Rick DeWitt
Rick DeWitt is a philosopher known for his work in logic and the philosophy of science, including authorship of accessible textbooks in these areas.
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E.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | computer science ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
database benchmarking
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database systems ⓘ distributed databases ⓘ parallel databases ⓘ query processing ⓘ |
| genre | scientific article ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
collaborating with industry on database technologies
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publishing research papers in top database conferences ⓘ supervising graduate students in computer science ⓘ |
| hasAward |
ACM Fellow
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ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ⓘ
linked to:
ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award
IEEE Fellow ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
OLAP systems
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data warehousing ⓘ relational database systems ⓘ |
| influenced | design of commercial parallel database systems ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Edgar F. Codd ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Wisconsin Benchmark for database systems
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database system performance evaluation ⓘ research on parallel database systems ⓘ research on query optimization ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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IEEE Computer Society ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
database performance benchmarks
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distributed query processing ⓘ parallel query execution ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Michael Stonebraker ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gamma parallel database system project
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papers on database system benchmarking ⓘ research on parallel query processing ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Madison, Wisconsin
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linked to:
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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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: David DeWitt Description of subject: David DeWitt is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in database systems and query processing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.