Marc Ewing
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Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marc Ewing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T272650 — 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: Marc Ewing Context triple: [Red Hat, foundedBy, Marc Ewing]
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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C.
David Drumlin
David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- 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: Marc Ewing Target entity description: Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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C.
David Drumlin
David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson in information technology
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Linux kernel community
ⓘ
RPM Package Manager ⓘ
linked to:
RPM
|
| basedIn | North Carolina ⓘ |
| businessModel | open-source subscription model ⓘ |
| coFounded | Red Hat ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developedFor | x86 architecture ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
|
| employer | Red Hat ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Linux distributions
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
open-source advocacy
ⓘ
software development ⓘ startup creation ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | self-employed (startup founder) ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
open-source industry
ⓘ
software industry ⓘ |
| influenced | enterprise adoption of Linux ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Red Hat ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Red Hat founding team ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
created the early Red Hat Linux distribution
ⓘ
helped popularize Linux in enterprise environments ⓘ |
| notableRole | early leader in the Linux community ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Red Hat
ⓘ
Red Hat Linux ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
|
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief technology officer of Red Hat ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ Unix shell ⓘ |
| typeOfEntrepreneur | technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Marc Ewing Description of subject: Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.