Miguel de Icaza

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free software advocate human software developer

Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican software developer best known for co-founding the GNOME desktop project and leading the Mono open-source .NET implementation.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Miguel de Icaza canonical	4
Luis de Icaza	1
de Icaza	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T400576 — 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: Miguel de Icaza
Context triple: [Award for the Advancement of Free Software, notableRecipient, Miguel de Icaza]

A. Leonardo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist best known for creating the Z3 theorem prover and contributing significantly to automated reasoning and formal verification.
B. Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films such as "Gladiator," "The Hunt for Red October," and "The Dark Knight Rises."
C. Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
D. Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova was a Catalan lawyer and politician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance for his leadership in the defense of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.
E. Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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: Miguel de Icaza
Target entity description: Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican software developer best known for co-founding the GNOME desktop project and leading the Mono open-source .NET implementation.

A. Leonardo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist best known for creating the Z3 theorem prover and contributing significantly to automated reasoning and formal verification.
B. Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films such as "Gladiator," "The Hunt for Red October," and "The Dark Knight Rises."
C. Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
D. Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova was a Catalan lawyer and politician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance for his leadership in the defense of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.
E. Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	free software advocate ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ
associatedWith	Free Software Foundation ⓘ GNOME Foundation ⓘ Microsoft .NET ecosystem ⓘ linked to: .NET ecosystem
awardReceived	Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software ⓘ linked to: Award for the Advancement of Free Software MIT Technology Review TR100 ⓘ linked to: MIT Technology Review
coFounderOf	GNOME ⓘ linked to: GNOME desktop environment Xamarin ⓘ Ximian ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Mexico ⓘ
developed	Mono ⓘ Mono for Android ⓘ linked to: Xamarin MonoTouch ⓘ linked to: Xamarin
employer	Microsoft ⓘ Novell ⓘ Xamarin ⓘ Ximian ⓘ
familyName	de Icaza ⓘ linked to: Miguel de Icaza
fieldOfWork	.NET technologies ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ
founded	Mono project ⓘ
givenName	Miguel ⓘ
hasOnlinePresence	GitHub account ⓘ personal blog ⓘ
influenced	Linux desktop adoption ⓘ cross-platform .NET development ⓘ
knownFor	co-founding the GNOME desktop project ⓘ leading the Mono project ⓘ work on open-source .NET implementation ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
name	Miguel de Icaza ⓘ
nationality	Mexican ⓘ
notableAchievement	helped create a major free desktop environment for Unix-like systems ⓘ pioneered cross-platform .NET on Linux and other systems ⓘ
notableFor	promoting open-source development tools for mobile platforms ⓘ
notableWork	GNOME desktop environment ⓘ Mono .NET implementation ⓘ Xamarin mobile development platform ⓘ linked to: Xamarin
occupation	programmer ⓘ software architect ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ
residence	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
role	leader of the Mono project ⓘ

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Award for the Advancement of Free Software → notableRecipient → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Miguel de Icaza → name → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Miguel de Icaza → familyName → de Icaza ⓘ

linked to: Miguel de Icaza

Ximian → foundedBy → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Ximian → notableEmployee → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Sólo con tu pareja → hasCastMember → Luis de Icaza ⓘ