Edmund M. Clarke
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Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist best known for co-inventing model checking, a breakthrough technique in formal verification that earned him the Turing Award.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edmund M. Clarke canonical | 7 |
| Edmund Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364392 — 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: Edmund M. Clarke Context triple: [Herbrand Award, notableRecipient, Edmund M. Clarke]
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A.
Martin Davis
Martin Davis was an American mathematician and logician renowned for his foundational work in computability theory and the Entscheidungsproblem, including contributions to the Davis–Putnam algorithm.
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B.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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C.
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning is an American computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in operating systems, particularly virtual memory, and for his leadership in advancing the science and practice of computing.
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D.
Michael Sipser
Michael Sipser is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity theory and for authoring a widely used textbook on the theory of computation.
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E.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
- 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: Edmund M. Clarke Target entity description: Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist best known for co-inventing model checking, a breakthrough technique in formal verification that earned him the Turing Award.
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A.
Martin Davis
Martin Davis was an American mathematician and logician renowned for his foundational work in computability theory and the Entscheidungsproblem, including contributions to the Davis–Putnam algorithm.
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B.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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C.
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning is an American computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in operating systems, particularly virtual memory, and for his leadership in advancing the science and practice of computing.
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D.
Michael Sipser
Michael Sipser is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity theory and for authoring a widely used textbook on the theory of computation.
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E.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
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Master of Arts in mathematics ⓘ PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM A.M. Turing Award
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linked to:
Turing Award
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ⓘ
linked to:
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award ⓘ
linked to:
AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award
LICS Test-of-Time Award ⓘ |
| birthName | Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Newport News, Virginia, United States
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linked to:
Newport News, Virginia
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| coAuthor |
Doron Peled
ⓘ
Orna Grumberg ⓘ |
| coInvented | model checking ⓘ |
| coInventedWith |
E. Allen Emerson
ⓘ
Joseph Sifakis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-07-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-12-22 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Dexter Kozen ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
ⓘ
Duke University ⓘ University of Virginia ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
Duke University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
formal methods ⓘ formal verification ⓘ model checking ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-inventing model checking
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contributions to formal verification ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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IEEE ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Byron Cook
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Joël Ouaknine ⓘ Kenneth McMillan ⓘ Marta Kwiatkowska ⓘ Somesh Jha ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Model Checking (book)
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Symbolic Model Checking ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| positionHeld |
FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
hardware verification
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software verification ⓘ temporal logic ⓘ |
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: Edmund M. Clarke Description of subject: Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist best known for co-inventing model checking, a breakthrough technique in formal verification that earned him the Turing Award.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.