Howie Choset
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Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howie Choset canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T390708 — 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: Howie Choset Context triple: [Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, hasFaculty, Howie Choset]
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A.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
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B.
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering work in self-driving cars, founding Google X and Udacity, and advancing artificial intelligence and online education.
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C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- 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: Howie Choset Target entity description: Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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A.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
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B.
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering work in self-driving cars, founding Google X and Udacity, and advancing artificial intelligence and online education.
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C.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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engineer ⓘ person ⓘ roboticist ⓘ |
| affiliation | Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| develops |
modular robotic platforms
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snake robots ⓘ surgical snake robots ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
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| fieldOfWork |
modular robotics
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robotics ⓘ snake robots ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor of robotics ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudent | robotics graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
control of hyper-redundant manipulators
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coverage and exploration algorithms ⓘ multi-robot systems ⓘ robotic sensing and perception for snake robots ⓘ |
| hasRole | faculty member at the Robotics Institute ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coverage path planning
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modular robotic systems ⓘ motion planning for hyper-redundant robots ⓘ snake-like robots for minimally invasive surgery ⓘ snake-like robots for search and rescue ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
biologically inspired robotics
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distributed robotic systems ⓘ hyper-redundant robotics ⓘ path planning ⓘ robot locomotion ⓘ search and rescue robotics ⓘ surgical robotics ⓘ |
| teachesAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
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| workInstitution |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
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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: Howie Choset Description of subject: Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.