Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
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The Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by distinguished faculty in the field of computer science.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordon McKay Professor | 1 |
| Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7617149 — 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: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Context triple: [Harry Lewis, positionHeld, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science]
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A.
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science
The Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department, held by leading scholars such as database theorist Jeffrey D. Ullman.
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B.
T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science
The T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by leading researchers in theoretical computer science.
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C.
Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences
The Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, known for having been held by pioneering computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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D.
Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in the university’s computer science department, historically held by influential computer scientist Fred Brooks.
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E.
Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing at Georgia Tech
The Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing at Georgia Tech is a prestigious endowed faculty position in the College of Computing, held by leading researchers in the field such as theoretical computer scientist Richard Lipton.
- 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: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Target entity description: The Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by distinguished faculty in the field of computer science.
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A.
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science
The Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department, held by leading scholars such as database theorist Jeffrey D. Ullman.
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B.
T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science
The T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by leading researchers in theoretical computer science.
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C.
Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences
The Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, known for having been held by pioneering computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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D.
Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in the university’s computer science department, historically held by influential computer scientist Fred Brooks.
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E.
Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing at Georgia Tech
The Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing at Georgia Tech is a prestigious endowed faculty position in the College of Computing, held by leading researchers in the field such as theoretical computer scientist Richard Lipton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic position
ⓘ
endowed chair ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | computer science ⓘ |
| academicUnit |
Computer Science area of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
ⓘ
linked to:
Computer Science Department
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| affiliation |
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| campus | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| endowedBy | Gordon McKay ⓘ |
| endowmentType | endowed chair ⓘ |
| field | computer science ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
endowed
ⓘ
prestigious ⓘ senior faculty position ⓘ |
| hasTitleComponent |
Gordon McKay Professor
ⓘ
linked to:
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science ⓘ |
| heldBy |
distinguished faculty
ⓘ
senior faculty members ⓘ |
| institutionType | private research university ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Harvard University ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Gordon McKay ⓘ |
| partOf |
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
ⓘ
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University ⓘ |
| positionLevel | full professorship ⓘ |
| purpose |
recognize distinguished scholarship in computer science
ⓘ
support research in computer science ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| selectionCriterion |
academic leadership in computer science
ⓘ
research excellence in computer science ⓘ scholarly distinction in computer science ⓘ |
| university | Harvard University ⓘ |
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: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Description of subject: The Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science is a prestigious endowed chair at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, held by distinguished faculty in the field of computer science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science