Peter Weinberger
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Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the AWK programming language and for his contributions to Unix at Bell Labs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Weinberger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7164936 — 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: Peter Weinberger Context triple: [Brian Kernighan, coAuthor, Peter Weinberger]
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A.
Robert Weinbach
Robert Weinbach is a film producer known for his work on independent genre movies, including the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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B.
Jerry Bresler
Jerry Bresler was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for working on large-scale studio productions.
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C.
Roger Birnbaum
Roger Birnbaum is an American film producer and studio executive known for co-founding Spyglass Entertainment and producing numerous mainstream Hollywood films.
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D.
Herb Jaffe
Herb Jaffe was an American film producer known for his work on genre films, including the cult horror classic "Fright Night" (1985).
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E.
Rob Wasserman
Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
- 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: Peter Weinberger Target entity description: Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the AWK programming language and for his contributions to Unix at Bell Labs.
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A.
Robert Weinbach
Robert Weinbach is a film producer known for his work on independent genre movies, including the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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B.
Jerry Bresler
Jerry Bresler was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for working on large-scale studio productions.
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C.
Roger Birnbaum
Roger Birnbaum is an American film producer and studio executive known for co-founding Spyglass Entertainment and producing numerous mainstream Hollywood films.
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D.
Herb Jaffe
Herb Jaffe was an American film producer known for his work on genre films, including the cult horror classic "Fright Night" (1985).
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E.
Rob Wasserman
Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
AT&T Bell Laboratories
ⓘ
linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs ⓘ
linked to:
Lucent Technologies
|
| coAuthor | The AWK Programming Language ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
AWK programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
AWK
|
| coInventorWith |
Alfred V. Aho
ⓘ
Brian W. Kernighan ⓘ
linked to:
Brian Kernighan
|
| contributedTo |
UNIX System V
ⓘ
Unix ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coWorker |
Alfred V. Aho
ⓘ
Brian W. Kernighan ⓘ
linked to:
Brian Kernighan
|
| designed | Weinberger hash function ⓘ |
| developerOf | W advertisement description language ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | John G. Kemeny ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
Bell Labs
ⓘ
linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
|
| fieldOfWork |
Unix systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Unix-like systems
computer science ⓘ programming languages ⓘ |
| genre | systems programming ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| hasContribution |
programming language design
ⓘ
software tools for Unix ⓘ text-processing utilities ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
algorithms
ⓘ
programming environments ⓘ software tools ⓘ |
| hasRole |
language designer
ⓘ
systems architect ⓘ |
| knownFor |
AWK programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
AWK
Unix operating system ⓘ Weinberger hash function ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
|
| notableStudent | Rob Pike ⓘ |
| notableWork |
AWK text-processing language
ⓘ
linked to:
AWK
|
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
research scientist ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| workInstitution |
Bell Laboratories
ⓘ
linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
|
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: Peter Weinberger Description of subject: Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist best known as one of the creators of the AWK programming language and for his contributions to Unix at Bell Labs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.