Brendan Eich

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Brendan Eich is an American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and a co-founder of the Mozilla project, Mozilla Foundation, and Mozilla Corporation.

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Label Occurrences
Brendan Eich canonical 15
Brendan Eich (former) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf computer scientist
human
software engineer
technologist
boardMemberOf Mozilla Foundation
coFounded Brave Software
Mozilla Foundation
surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla project
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
created JavaScript
surface form: JavaScript programming language
developedFor Netscape Navigator
educatedAt Santa Clara University
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
education Santa Clara University
employer Brave Software
Mozilla Foundation
surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Netscape Communications Corporation
familyName Eich
fieldOfStudy computer science
mathematics
fieldOfWork computer science
programming languages
web development
givenName Brendan
influenced client-side scripting on the web
web development industry
knownFor co-founding the Mozilla Corporation
co-founding the Mozilla Foundation
co-founding the Mozilla project
creating JavaScript
languageSpoken English
name Brendan Eich self-link
nationality American
notableIdea dynamic scripting language for the web
notableProject Brave web browser
Mozilla Firefox
surface form: Firefox web browser

Mozilla
notableWork JavaScript
occupation programmer
software architect
technology executive
positionHeld Chief Executive Officer of Brave Software
Chief Executive Officer of Mozilla Corporation
Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla Corporation
programmingLanguageDesigned JavaScript
residence California, United States
surface form: California
sexOrGender male

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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.
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Subject: Brendan Eich
Description of subject: Brendan Eich is an American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and a co-founder of the Mozilla project, Mozilla Foundation, and Mozilla Corporation.

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

JavaScript designedBy Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich name Brendan Eich self-link
SpiderMonkey originalAuthor Brendan Eich
Mozilla Foundation foundedBy Brendan Eich
Brave web browser founderOfDeveloper Brendan Eich
subject surface form: Brave
Mozilla hasKeyPerson Brendan Eich
this entity surface form: Brendan Eich (former)
Brave Software foundedBy Brendan Eich
Brave Software hasFounder Brendan Eich
Brave Software keyPerson Brendan Eich
Eich isUsedAsSurnameBy Brendan Eich
Eich designedBy Brendan Eich
subject surface form: JavaScript
Basic Attention Token creator Brendan Eich
Brian Bondy collaboratedWith Brendan Eich