Jeremy Allison
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Jeremy Allison is a prominent free software developer best known as a lead developer of the Samba project, which enables interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeremy Allison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8287702 — 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: Jeremy Allison Context triple: [Samba, originalAuthor, Jeremy Allison]
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A.
Ben Shepherd
Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
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B.
Andy Smith
Andy Smith was an early 20th-century American college football coach best known for leading the University of California Golden Bears to national prominence with multiple undefeated seasons.
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C.
Chris Spedding
Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
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D.
Ed Shearmur
Ed Shearmur is a British film composer known for scoring a wide range of Hollywood movies across genres.
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E.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
- 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: Jeremy Allison Target entity description: Jeremy Allison is a prominent free software developer best known as a lead developer of the Samba project, which enables interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
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A.
Ben Shepherd
Ben Shepherd is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the influential grunge band Soundgarden.
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B.
Andy Smith
Andy Smith was an early 20th-century American college football coach best known for leading the University of California Golden Bears to national prominence with multiple undefeated seasons.
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C.
Chris Spedding
Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
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D.
Ed Shearmur
Ed Shearmur is a British film composer known for scoring a wide range of Hollywood movies across genres.
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E.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
free software developer ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| advocates |
free software
ⓘ
open standards ⓘ |
| appearedOn |
FLOSS Weekly podcast
ⓘ
various open source conference panels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Linux community
ⓘ
free software movement ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
SMB/CIFS protocol implementations
ⓘ
Samba documentation ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developed | Samba implementation of SMB/CIFS protocols ⓘ |
| employer |
Cobalt Networks
ⓘ
Google ⓘ Hewlett-Packard ⓘ Novell ⓘ Sun Microsystems ⓘ VA Linux Systems ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer networking
ⓘ
file sharing protocols ⓘ interoperability between Unix and Windows systems ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Windows–Unix interoperability
ⓘ
network file and print services ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
CIFS protocol
ⓘ
linked to:
SMB
SMB protocol ⓘ interoperability engineering ⓘ network file systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Samba
ⓘ
free software advocacy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licenseWorkUnder |
GPL
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| memberOf | Samba Team ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Samba file and print services suite
ⓘ
linked to:
SMB
|
| occupation |
free software developer
ⓘ
programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| role | lead developer of Samba ⓘ |
| softwareProject | Samba ⓘ |
| spokeAt |
FOSDEM
ⓘ
Linux.conf.au ⓘ various Linux user group meetings ⓘ |
| supports | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| topicOf | interviews about Microsoft interoperability ⓘ |
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: Jeremy Allison Description of subject: Jeremy Allison is a prominent free software developer best known as a lead developer of the Samba project, which enables interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.