Roger Dingledine
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Roger Dingledine is a computer scientist and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder and key developer of the Tor anonymity network.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Dingledine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921701 — 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: Roger Dingledine Context triple: [The Tor Project, foundedBy, Roger Dingledine]
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A.
Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is an American law professor and free software advocate known for his work on the legal foundations of the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
John Gilmore
John Gilmore is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and civil liberties advocate best known as a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an early pioneer in the free software and open internet movements.
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C.
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt is a Canadian software engineer best known as the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and as a prominent advocate for free and secure software.
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D.
Adam Langley
Adam Langley is a software engineer and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security protocols and contributions to projects like Google’s TLS infrastructure and modern cryptographic standards.
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E.
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a prominent cryptographer known for his influential work on the theory and practice of encryption and for advocating the ethical and social responsibilities of cryptography.
- 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: Roger Dingledine Target entity description: Roger Dingledine is a computer scientist and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder and key developer of the Tor anonymity network.
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A.
Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is an American law professor and free software advocate known for his work on the legal foundations of the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
John Gilmore
John Gilmore is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and civil liberties advocate best known as a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an early pioneer in the free software and open internet movements.
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C.
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt is a Canadian software engineer best known as the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and as a prominent advocate for free and secure software.
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D.
Adam Langley
Adam Langley is a software engineer and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security protocols and contributions to projects like Google’s TLS infrastructure and modern cryptographic standards.
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E.
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a prominent cryptographer known for his influential work on the theory and practice of encryption and for advocating the ethical and social responsibilities of cryptography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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privacy advocate ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
freedom of expression online
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online privacy ⓘ resistance to internet censorship ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tor Project
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linked to:
The Tor Project
free and open-source software community ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Tor Project
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linked to:
The Tor Project
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| contributedTo |
deployment of Tor network
ⓘ
design of Tor protocol ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | computer science ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anonymous communication
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computer security ⓘ cryptography ⓘ privacy-enhancing technologies ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt |
academic workshops
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hacker conferences ⓘ security conferences ⓘ |
| hasPublishedIn | computer security research venues ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Tor Project core developer
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Tor Project director ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of anonymity networks
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privacy-enhancing technology research community ⓘ |
| keyDeveloperOf |
Tor anonymity network
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linked to:
The Tor Project
|
| knownFor |
co-founding the Tor anonymity network
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development of Tor software ⓘ digital privacy advocacy ⓘ work on online anonymity ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Onion routing implementations in Tor
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Tor ⓘ
linked to:
The Tor Project
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| occupation |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
censorship circumvention
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network anonymity ⓘ traffic analysis resistance ⓘ |
| speaksAbout |
internet surveillance
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threat modeling for activists ⓘ usable security ⓘ |
| supports |
open-source software
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strong encryption ⓘ |
| worksOn |
privacy-preserving communication systems
ⓘ
secure network protocols ⓘ |
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: Roger Dingledine Description of subject: Roger Dingledine is a computer scientist and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder and key developer of the Tor anonymity network.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.