Eric Raymond
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Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric S. Raymond | 25 |
| Eric Raymond canonical | 2 |
| Eric Steven Raymond | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20325 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Raymond Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Eric Raymond]
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Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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C.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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D.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
- 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: Eric Raymond Target entity description: Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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A.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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C.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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D.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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author ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ open-source advocate ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| advocated |
collaborative software development
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use of open-source licenses ⓘ |
| authored |
Homesteading the Noosphere
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How To Become A Hacker ⓘ Magic Cauldron ⓘ Revenge of the Hackers ⓘ The Art of Unix Programming ⓘ The Cathedral and the Bazaar ⓘ The Jargon File ⓘ
linked to:
The New Hacker's Dictionary
The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1957-12-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| edited |
The Jargon File
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linked to:
The New Hacker's Dictionary
The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ |
| familyName | Raymond ⓘ |
| field |
computer programming
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open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| fullName |
Eric Steven Raymond
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linked to:
Eric Raymond
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| influenced |
open-source movement
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software business models for open source ⓘ |
| knownFor |
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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advocacy of open-source software ⓘ editing The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
hacker culture
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open-source software movement ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Art of Unix Programming
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar ⓘ The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ |
| occupation |
open-source strategist
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software developer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| softwareDeveloped | fetchmail ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
bazaar model of software development
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cathedral model of software development ⓘ hacker culture and ethics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eric Raymond Description of subject: Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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