Fernando J. Corbató
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Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fernando J. Corbató canonical | 2 |
| Fernando Corbató | 1 |
| Fernando José Corbató | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1386192 — 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: Fernando J. Corbató Context triple: [Peter J. Denning, doctoralAdvisor, Fernando J. Corbató]
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A.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
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B.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
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E.
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as the "father of computer graphics" for his groundbreaking work on interactive graphics systems and virtual reality.
- 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: Fernando J. Corbató Target entity description: Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
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A.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
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B.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
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E.
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as the "father of computer graphics" for his groundbreaking work on interactive graphics systems and virtual reality.
- 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: Fernando J. Corbató Description of subject: Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fernando Corbató
this entity surface form:
Fernando José Corbató