Arvind Narayanan
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Arvind Narayanan is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in security, privacy, and the societal impacts of algorithms and machine learning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arvind Narayanan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9809520 — 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: Arvind Narayanan Context triple: [Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, notableRecipient, Arvind Narayanan]
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A.
Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is a computer scientist and MIT professor best known as the founding CEO of edX, a major online learning platform.
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B.
Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technology executive and computer scientist best known for serving as the chief executive officer of Twitter.
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C.
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee was an Indian actor known for his prominent roles in Bengali cinema, particularly in the films of Satyajit Ray and other leading directors of his time.
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D.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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E.
Rakesh Agrawal
Rakesh Agrawal is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational contributions to data mining and database systems.
- 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: Arvind Narayanan Target entity description: Arvind Narayanan is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in security, privacy, and the societal impacts of algorithms and machine learning.
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A.
Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is a computer scientist and MIT professor best known as the founding CEO of edX, a major online learning platform.
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B.
Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technology executive and computer scientist best known for serving as the chief executive officer of Twitter.
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C.
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee was an Indian actor known for his prominent roles in Bengali cinema, particularly in the films of Satyajit Ray and other leading directors of his time.
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D.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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E.
Rakesh Agrawal
Rakesh Agrawal is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational contributions to data mining and database systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Princeton University ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
India
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United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Vitaly Shmatikov ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algorithmic fairness
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blockchain analysis ⓘ computer security ⓘ cryptocurrencies ⓘ cryptography ⓘ data anonymization ⓘ machine learning ⓘ privacy ⓘ societal impacts of algorithms ⓘ web tracking ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
computer science
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data science ⓘ information security ⓘ |
| hasRole | principal investigator on privacy and security research projects ⓘ |
| hasTaught |
courses on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
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courses on ethics of algorithms ⓘ courses on privacy and security ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critiques of commercial face recognition systems
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critiques of predictive policing algorithms ⓘ public communication on privacy and security ⓘ showing limits of anonymization techniques ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Tamil ⓘ |
| memberOf | Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
analysis of the Netflix Prize dataset de-anonymization
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research on Bitcoin and blockchain privacy ⓘ research on de-anonymization of social networks ⓘ work on algorithmic accountability ⓘ work on fairness in machine learning ⓘ work on web tracking and online advertising privacy ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
algorithmic transparency
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data protection ⓘ online tracking ⓘ responsible AI ⓘ |
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: Arvind Narayanan Description of subject: Arvind Narayanan is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in security, privacy, and the societal impacts of algorithms and machine learning.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.