Michael Blaha
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Michael Blaha is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his pioneering work in object-oriented modeling and database design, including co-developing the Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Blaha canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7936829 — 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: Michael Blaha Context triple: [Object Modeling Technique, coCreator, Michael Blaha]
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A.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
David Kajganich
David Kajganich is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on atmospheric horror and thriller projects such as the TV series "The Terror" and the film "Suspiria."
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C.
Joe Pisarcik
Joe Pisarcik is a former NFL quarterback best known for his infamous late-game fumble in 1978 that led to the "Miracle at the Meadowlands."
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D.
David Burtka
David Burtka is an American actor and professional chef known for his work on stage and screen and for his long-term relationship and marriage to Neil Patrick Harris.
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E.
Chris Schenkel
Chris Schenkel was a prominent American sportscaster known for his long career covering football, bowling, and other major sporting events on national television.
- 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: Michael Blaha Target entity description: Michael Blaha is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his pioneering work in object-oriented modeling and database design, including co-developing the Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
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A.
Michael Nolin
Michael Nolin is an American film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed music drama "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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B.
David Kajganich
David Kajganich is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on atmospheric horror and thriller projects such as the TV series "The Terror" and the film "Suspiria."
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C.
Joe Pisarcik
Joe Pisarcik is a former NFL quarterback best known for his infamous late-game fumble in 1978 that led to the "Miracle at the Meadowlands."
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D.
David Burtka
David Burtka is an American actor and professional chef known for his work on stage and screen and for his long-term relationship and marriage to Neil Patrick Harris.
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E.
Chris Schenkel
Chris Schenkel was a prominent American sportscaster known for his long career covering football, bowling, and other major sporting events on national television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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lecturer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| coAuthored |
A Manager’s Guide to Object-Oriented Software Engineering
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Object-Oriented Modeling and Design ⓘ Patterns of Data Modeling ⓘ UML and the Unified Process ⓘ |
| coAuthoredWith |
Bill Premerlani
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James Rumbaugh ⓘ Peter Lorenz ⓘ William Premerlani ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf | Object Modeling Technique ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
data modeling
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database systems ⓘ object-oriented analysis and design ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
conducting industry seminars on data modeling
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publishing technical books on software engineering ⓘ teaching object-oriented design courses ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
conceptual data modeling
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database reverse engineering ⓘ legacy system modernization ⓘ software architecture ⓘ |
| hasNotableContribution |
early industrial use of object-oriented analysis
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formalization of object-oriented modeling methods ⓘ methods for legacy system modeling ⓘ techniques for database reverse engineering ⓘ |
| hasRole |
conference speaker
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consultant ⓘ trainer ⓘ |
| influenced |
industrial software modeling practices
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object-oriented analysis methodologies ⓘ |
| influencedBy | object-oriented programming paradigm ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Object Modeling Technique
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database design ⓘ object-oriented modeling ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Manager’s Guide to Object-Oriented Software Engineering
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Object-Oriented Modeling and Design ⓘ Patterns of Data Modeling ⓘ |
| topicOf |
research on database design techniques
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research on object-oriented modeling ⓘ |
| usesModelingLanguage |
UML
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linked to:
Unified Modeling Language
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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: Michael Blaha Description of subject: Michael Blaha is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his pioneering work in object-oriented modeling and database design, including co-developing the Object Modeling Technique (OMT).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.