Jeffrey D. Ullman
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Jeffrey D. Ullman is a prominent American computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to database theory, algorithms, and formal languages, and for coauthoring several classic textbooks in computer science.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey D. Ullman canonical | 11 |
| Jeffrey David Ullman | 1 |
| Jeffrey Ullman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1043668 — 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: Jeffrey D. Ullman Context triple: [Johan Håstad, doctoralAdvisor, Jeffrey D. Ullman]
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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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Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant is a renowned computer scientist known for his foundational work in computational learning theory, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence.
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Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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Michael Sipser
Michael Sipser is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity theory and for authoring a widely used textbook on the theory of computation.
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Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Y. Vardi is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in logic in computer science, database theory, and automated verification.
- 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: Jeffrey D. Ullman Target entity description: Jeffrey D. Ullman is a prominent American computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to database theory, algorithms, and formal languages, and for coauthoring several classic textbooks in computer science.
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A.
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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B.
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant is a renowned computer scientist known for his foundational work in computational learning theory, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence.
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C.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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D.
Michael Sipser
Michael Sipser is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity theory and for authoring a widely used textbook on the theory of computation.
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E.
Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Y. Vardi is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in logic in computer science, database theory, and automated verification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Jeffrey D. Ullman Description of subject: Jeffrey D. Ullman is a prominent American computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to database theory, algorithms, and formal languages, and for coauthoring several classic textbooks in computer science.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jeffrey David Ullman
this entity surface form:
Jeffrey Ullman
subject surface form:
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
"Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation"
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Jeffrey D. Ullman
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subject surface form:
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation