Cornelis H. A. Koster
E444568
Cornelis H. A. Koster was a Dutch computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and formal language theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelis H. A. Koster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4442221 — 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: Cornelis H. A. Koster Context triple: [Adriaan van Wijngaarden, notableStudent, Cornelis H. A. Koster]
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A.
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to support Anne Frank and the others hiding in the Secret Annex during World War II.
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B.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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C.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
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D.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
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E.
Willem Bilderdijk
Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, and linguist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his conservative views and significant influence on Dutch Romantic literature.
- 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: Cornelis H. A. Koster Target entity description: Cornelis H. A. Koster was a Dutch computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and formal language theory.
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A.
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl
Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl was the father of Bep Voskuijl and one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to support Anne Frank and the others hiding in the Secret Annex during World War II.
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B.
Johannes van der Meer
Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
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C.
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
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D.
Martinus Veltman
Martinus Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the renormalization of gauge theories in particle physics.
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E.
Willem Bilderdijk
Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, and linguist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his conservative views and significant influence on Dutch Romantic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch person
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computer scientist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | informatics ⓘ |
| affiliation | Radboud University Nijmegen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer | Radboud University Nijmegen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
compiler construction
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computer science ⓘ formal language theory ⓘ programming languages ⓘ syntax definition ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compiler generation techniques
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programming language design ⓘ syntax definition formalism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
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English ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to formal language theory
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contributions to programming language design ⓘ work on compiler generation ⓘ work on syntax definition formalisms ⓘ |
| occupation | computer scientist ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Netherlands
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Nijmegen ⓘ |
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: Cornelis H. A. Koster Description of subject: Cornelis H. A. Koster was a Dutch computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and formal language theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.