André van der Hoek
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André van der Hoek is a prominent software engineering researcher and academic known for influential contributions to software design, configuration management, and collaborative development environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| André van der Hoek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: André van der Hoek Context triple: [ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, hasRecipient, André van der Hoek]
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A.
Roelf Steenhuis
Roelf Steenhuis is a Dutch architect best known as one of the founding figures of the architecture firm Mecanoo.
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B.
Roel van Velzen
Roel van Velzen is a Dutch singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality best known as the frontman of the pop-rock band VanVelzen and as a coach on The Voice of Holland.
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C.
André Rouvoet
André Rouvoet is a Dutch politician of the ChristianUnion party who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Youth and Family Affairs in the Netherlands.
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D.
Sander Dieleman
Sander Dieleman is a machine learning researcher known for his influential work in deep learning for audio and music, including contributions to models such as WaveNet.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- 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: André van der Hoek Target entity description: André van der Hoek is a prominent software engineering researcher and academic known for influential contributions to software design, configuration management, and collaborative development environments.
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A.
Roelf Steenhuis
Roelf Steenhuis is a Dutch architect best known as one of the founding figures of the architecture firm Mecanoo.
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B.
Roel van Velzen
Roel van Velzen is a Dutch singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality best known as the frontman of the pop-rock band VanVelzen and as a coach on The Voice of Holland.
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C.
André Rouvoet
André Rouvoet is a Dutch politician of the ChristianUnion party who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Youth and Family Affairs in the Netherlands.
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D.
Sander Dieleman
Sander Dieleman is a machine learning researcher known for his influential work in deep learning for audio and music, including contributions to models such as WaveNet.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer science academic
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person ⓘ software engineering researcher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Colorado Boulder
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University of Twente ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Irvine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
collaborative software development
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configuration management ⓘ software design ⓘ software development environments ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
research on collaborative development environments
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research on configuration management ⓘ research on software design ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dutch
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English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
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linked to:
Department of Informatics
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| name | André van der Hoek ⓘ |
| notableWork |
publications on configuration management and software evolution
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research on design environments for software engineering ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chair of the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
collaborative software engineering
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software configuration management ⓘ software design processes ⓘ software development tools ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: André van der Hoek Description of subject: André van der Hoek is a prominent software engineering researcher and academic known for influential contributions to software design, configuration management, and collaborative development environments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.