William Alvin Howard
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William Alvin Howard is an American logician and mathematician best known for the Curry–Howard correspondence linking logic and computation.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Alvin Howard canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10063135 — 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: William Alvin Howard Context triple: [Haskell Curry, notableStudent, William Alvin Howard]
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A.
William Gargan
William Gargan was an American actor known for his work in film, radio, and television during the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying tough but likable characters.
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B.
Paul H. Williams
Paul H. Williams is a son of the influential American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Mortimer C. Googie
Mortimer C. Googie was an architect whose distinctive modernist style inspired the name and aesthetic of the iconic Googies Coffee Shop and the broader Googie architectural movement.
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E.
Harold L. Sebring
Harold L. Sebring was an American jurist and former Florida Supreme Court justice who served as one of the judges at the post–World War II Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
- 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: William Alvin Howard Target entity description: William Alvin Howard is an American logician and mathematician best known for the Curry–Howard correspondence linking logic and computation.
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A.
William Gargan
William Gargan was an American actor known for his work in film, radio, and television during the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying tough but likable characters.
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B.
Paul H. Williams
Paul H. Williams is a son of the influential American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Mortimer C. Googie
Mortimer C. Googie was an architect whose distinctive modernist style inspired the name and aesthetic of the iconic Googies Coffee Shop and the broader Googie architectural movement.
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E.
Harold L. Sebring
Harold L. Sebring was an American jurist and former Florida Supreme Court justice who served as one of the judges at the post–World War II Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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logician ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
constructive mathematics
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foundations of programming languages ⓘ proof assistants and automated theorem proving ⓘ |
| birthName | William Alvin Howard ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
intuitionistic type theory
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lambda calculus semantics ⓘ proofs-as-programs paradigm ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Saunders Mac Lane ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
University of Chicago ⓘ University of Illinois at Chicago ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
lambda calculus
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mathematical logic ⓘ proof theory ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ type theory ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jean-Yves Girard
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Per Martin-Löf ⓘ the development of type theory in computer science ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gerhard Gentzen
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Haskell Curry ⓘ |
| knownFor | linking logic and computation via types ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Curry–Howard correspondence
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work on intuitionistic logic ⓘ work on the correspondence between proofs and programs ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The formulae-as-types notion of construction
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linked to:
Curry–Howard correspondence
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| positionHeld |
professor of mathematics
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professor of philosophy ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theoryDeveloped |
Curry–Howard isomorphism
ⓘ
linked to:
Curry–Howard correspondence
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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: William Alvin Howard Description of subject: William Alvin Howard is an American logician and mathematician best known for the Curry–Howard correspondence linking logic and computation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.