Timothy Lister
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Timothy Lister is a software engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of the influential book "Peopleware," which focuses on the human and organizational aspects of software development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Timothy Lister canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11823799 — 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: Timothy Lister Context triple: [Lister, hasNotableBearer, Timothy Lister]
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A.
Timothy Alden
Timothy Alden was an early 19th-century American educator and clergyman best known for establishing Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
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B.
Timothy Arthur
Timothy Arthur, often known as T. S. Arthur, was a 19th-century American author and temperance advocate best known for his moralistic tales such as "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There."
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C.
Tim Sutherland
Tim Sutherland is a notable individual who shares the Sutherland surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the name.
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D.
Timothy Shelley
Timothy Shelley was an English baronet and Member of Parliament best known as the father of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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E.
Timothy Christian Riley
Timothy Christian Riley is an American drummer, keyboardist, and producer best known as a member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!.
- 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: Timothy Lister Target entity description: Timothy Lister is a software engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of the influential book "Peopleware," which focuses on the human and organizational aspects of software development.
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A.
Timothy Alden
Timothy Alden was an early 19th-century American educator and clergyman best known for establishing Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
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B.
Timothy Arthur
Timothy Arthur, often known as T. S. Arthur, was a 19th-century American author and temperance advocate best known for his moralistic tales such as "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There."
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C.
Tim Sutherland
Tim Sutherland is a notable individual who shares the Sutherland surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the name.
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D.
Timothy Shelley
Timothy Shelley was an English baronet and Member of Parliament best known as the father of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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E.
Timothy Christian Riley
Timothy Christian Riley is an American drummer, keyboardist, and producer best known as a member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ software consultant ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| author |
Timothy Lister
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Tom DeMarco ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Tom DeMarco ⓘ |
| field |
organizational behavior in software development
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software engineering ⓘ software project management ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human aspects of software development
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organizational aspects of software development ⓘ software project management practices ⓘ team productivity in software projects ⓘ |
| genre |
management
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management literature ⓘ software engineering ⓘ software engineering literature ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
agile and modern software management thinking
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software development workplace design ⓘ |
| hasRole |
consultant to software organizations
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speaker on software project management ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
office environment and productivity
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organizational culture in technology companies ⓘ software project risk ⓘ team management in software projects ⓘ |
| influenced |
software project management practices
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thinking about workplace environment in software development ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-authoring the book "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
human factors in software development
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software project management ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
emphasis on team dynamics in software productivity
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importance of quiet, interruption-free workspaces for developers ⓘ view of software development as a human, not purely technical, activity ⓘ |
| notableWork | "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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consultant ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| subjectOf | discussions in software engineering communities ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Timothy Lister Description of subject: Timothy Lister is a software engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of the influential book "Peopleware," which focuses on the human and organizational aspects of software development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Timothy Lister