Paul Eggert
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Paul Eggert is a computer scientist and software developer best known for his long-term stewardship and maintenance of the IANA time zone database and contributions to GNU software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Eggert canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T239409 — 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: Paul Eggert Context triple: [IANA time zone database, originallyMaintainedBy, Paul Eggert]
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A.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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B.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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C.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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D.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Peter Knubel
Peter Knubel was a 19th-century Swiss mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus, including an early ascent of Mount Elbrus’s higher summit.
- 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: Paul Eggert Target entity description: Paul Eggert is a computer scientist and software developer best known for his long-term stewardship and maintenance of the IANA time zone database and contributions to GNU software.
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A.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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B.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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C.
George Bergstrom
George Bergstrom was an American architect best known for designing the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
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D.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Peter Knubel
Peter Knubel was a 19th-century Swiss mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus, including an early ascent of Mount Elbrus’s higher summit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
UCLA Computer Science Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Computer Science, UCLA
|
| areaOfExpertise |
POSIX time semantics
ⓘ
Unix utilities ⓘ software portability ⓘ time zones ⓘ timekeeping in computing ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ IANA ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
GNU Project
ⓘ
POSIX standardization (time and date behavior) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
free software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to GNU software
ⓘ
maintenance of the IANA time zone database ⓘ stewardship of the IANA time zone database ⓘ |
| notableRole |
maintainer of GNU Coreutils
ⓘ
maintainer of GNU Diffutils ⓘ maintainer of GNU Gnulib ⓘ maintainer of GNU Tar ⓘ maintainer of the IANA time zone database ⓘ |
| notableWork |
GNU Autoconf
ⓘ
GNU Coreutils ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Core Utilities
GNU Diffutils ⓘ GNU Emacs (contributions) ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Emacs
GNU Gawk ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Awk
GNU Gnulib ⓘ GNU Grep ⓘ GNU M4 ⓘ
linked to:
M4 macro processor
GNU Tar ⓘ IANA time zone database ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ Shell ⓘ |
| teaches | computer science ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
software portability issues
ⓘ
time zone handling in software ⓘ |
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: Paul Eggert Description of subject: Paul Eggert is a computer scientist and software developer best known for his long-term stewardship and maintenance of the IANA time zone database and contributions to GNU software.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.