Simon Tatham
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Simon Tatham is a British software developer best known as the original author and maintainer of the PuTTY SSH and telnet client.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Tatham canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T338514 — 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: Simon Tatham Context triple: [PuTTY, developer, Simon Tatham]
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A.
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan was an American logician, mathematician, and puzzle creator renowned for his engaging logic puzzles, recreational mathematics books, and popular expositions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.
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B.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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C.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
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D.
John H. Conway
John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
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E.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
- 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: Simon Tatham Target entity description: Simon Tatham is a British software developer best known as the original author and maintainer of the PuTTY SSH and telnet client.
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A.
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan was an American logician, mathematician, and puzzle creator renowned for his engaging logic puzzles, recreational mathematics books, and popular expositions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.
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B.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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C.
Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
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D.
John H. Conway
John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
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E.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
free software programmer ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| authored | “How to Report Bugs Effectively” ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developed |
PuTTY SSH client
ⓘ
linked to:
PuTTY
PuTTY telnet client ⓘ
linked to:
PuTTY
PuTTY terminal emulator ⓘ
linked to:
PuTTY
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer security
ⓘ
computer software ⓘ network protocols ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBlog | https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/news/ ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalksOn |
PuTTY
ⓘ
SSH clients ⓘ software maintenance ⓘ |
| hasPage | https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
PuTTY
ⓘ
SSH client development ⓘ essay “How to Report Bugs Effectively” ⓘ
linked to:
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
telnet client development ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableProject | PuTTY ⓘ |
| notableWork | PuTTY ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed | C ⓘ |
| role |
maintainer of PuTTY
ⓘ
original author of PuTTY ⓘ |
| softwareDistributedAs | free software ⓘ |
| softwareLicenseUsed | MIT-style license ⓘ |
| softwareProjectType |
SSH client
ⓘ
telnet client ⓘ terminal emulator ⓘ |
| website | https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
debugging
ⓘ
programming practices ⓘ software development ⓘ |
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: Simon Tatham Description of subject: Simon Tatham is a British software developer best known as the original author and maintainer of the PuTTY SSH and telnet client.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
subject linked to:
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”