Bina
E803463
Bina is the surname of Eric Bina, an American software engineer best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bina canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9515414 — 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: Bina Context triple: [Eric Bina, familyName, Bina]
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A.
Binya
Binya is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, situated in an agricultural region of the Riverina.
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B.
Bani
Bani was a daughter of the prominent Indian freedom fighter and lawyer Chittaranjan (C. R.) Das.
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C.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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D.
Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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E.
Beni
Beni is a town in western Nepal that serves as a gateway to the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountain regions.
- 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: Bina Target entity description: Bina is the surname of Eric Bina, an American software engineer best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser.
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A.
Binya
Binya is a small rural locality in New South Wales, Australia, situated in an agricultural region of the Riverina.
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B.
Bani
Bani was a daughter of the prominent Indian freedom fighter and lawyer Chittaranjan (C. R.) Das.
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C.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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D.
Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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E.
Beni
Beni is a town in western Nepal that serves as a gateway to the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountain regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
web browser ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
Mosaic web browser
ⓘ
linked to:
Mosaic (web browser)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developer |
Eric Bina
ⓘ
National Center for Supercomputing Applications ⓘ |
| employer | National Center for Supercomputing Applications ⓘ |
| familyName | Bina ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
software engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-creating the Mosaic web browser ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mosaic web browser
ⓘ
linked to:
Mosaic (web browser)
|
| occupation | software engineer ⓘ |
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: Bina Description of subject: Bina is the surname of Eric Bina, an American software engineer best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bina