Patrice Godefroid
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Patrice Godefroid is a computer scientist known for his pioneering work in software model checking, automated testing, and program analysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrice Godefroid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11016423 — 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: Patrice Godefroid Context triple: [CAV Award, notableRecipient, Patrice Godefroid]
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A.
Gérard Berry
Gérard Berry is a prominent French computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages, formal methods, and synchronous programming.
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B.
Gerard J. Holzmann
Gerard J. Holzmann is a computer scientist best known for creating the SPIN model checker and for his influential work in formal verification and software reliability.
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C.
Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy is a French computer scientist best known for his work on the OCaml programming language and the formally verified CompCert C compiler.
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D.
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd was a pioneering computer scientist best known for her influential work on Internet congestion control and active queue management, including the development of Random Early Detection (RED) algorithms.
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E.
Hugo Krawczyk
Hugo Krawczyk is a prominent cryptographer known for foundational contributions to modern cryptographic protocols and standards, including the design of HMAC and key exchange mechanisms used in Internet security.
- 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: Patrice Godefroid Target entity description: Patrice Godefroid is a computer scientist known for his pioneering work in software model checking, automated testing, and program analysis.
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A.
Gérard Berry
Gérard Berry is a prominent French computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages, formal methods, and synchronous programming.
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B.
Gerard J. Holzmann
Gerard J. Holzmann is a computer scientist best known for creating the SPIN model checker and for his influential work in formal verification and software reliability.
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C.
Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy is a French computer scientist best known for his work on the OCaml programming language and the formally verified CompCert C compiler.
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D.
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd was a pioneering computer scientist best known for her influential work on Internet congestion control and active queue management, including the development of Random Early Detection (RED) algorithms.
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E.
Hugo Krawczyk
Hugo Krawczyk is a prominent cryptographer known for foundational contributions to modern cryptographic protocols and standards, including the design of HMAC and key exchange mechanisms used in Internet security.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| citizenship | Belgium ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Université de Liège
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linked to:
University of Liège
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| fieldOfWork |
automated software testing
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concolic testing ⓘ formal methods ⓘ model checking ⓘ program analysis ⓘ software model checking ⓘ software verification ⓘ symbolic execution ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | Microsoft Research ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
book chapters
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conference papers ⓘ journal articles ⓘ |
| influenced |
research on automated test generation
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research on dynamic symbolic execution ⓘ research on model checking of software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dynamic symbolic execution
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partial-order reduction in model checking ⓘ pioneering work in automated testing ⓘ pioneering work in program analysis ⓘ pioneering work in software model checking ⓘ systematic software testing techniques ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf | research staff at Microsoft Research ⓘ |
| nationality | Belgian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
work on concolic testing for software
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work on dynamic test generation ⓘ work on model checking of concurrent programs ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer science researcher
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software researcher ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
automated program verification
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bug finding in large software systems ⓘ search-based software testing ⓘ software reliability ⓘ |
| specialization |
systematic exploration of program executions
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verification of concurrent systems ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| worksOn |
scalable program analysis techniques
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tools for automated software testing ⓘ tools for software model checking ⓘ |
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: Patrice Godefroid Description of subject: Patrice Godefroid is a computer scientist known for his pioneering work in software model checking, automated testing, and program analysis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.