Eric Evans
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Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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| Eric Evans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1531692 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Evans Context triple: [Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, author, Eric Evans]
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David A. Evans
David A. Evans was a highly influential American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and the development of the Evans aldol reaction.
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B.
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.
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C.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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Kent Beck
Kent Beck is an influential American software engineer and author, best known as a pioneer of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, and modern agile software practices.
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E.
Michael Hillegas
Michael Hillegas was an American merchant and statesman who served as the first Treasurer of the United States during the Revolutionary era.
- 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: Eric Evans Target entity description: Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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A.
David A. Evans
David A. Evans was a highly influential American organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and the development of the Evans aldol reaction.
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B.
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.
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C.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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D.
Kent Beck
Kent Beck is an influential American software engineer and author, best known as a pioneer of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, and modern agile software practices.
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E.
Michael Hillegas
Michael Hillegas was an American merchant and statesman who served as the first Treasurer of the United States during the Revolutionary era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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software architect ⓘ software engineer ⓘ thought leader ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
business software design
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enterprise software development ⓘ large-scale systems design ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
bounded context concept in software design
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formalization of Domain-Driven Design ⓘ strategic design patterns in DDD ⓘ tactical design patterns in DDD ⓘ ubiquitous language concept in software design ⓘ |
| field |
domain modeling
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object-oriented design ⓘ software architecture ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
aggregate
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anticorruption layer ⓘ bounded context ⓘ context map ⓘ core domain ⓘ domain event ⓘ domain service ⓘ entity ⓘ generic subdomain ⓘ layered architecture in DDD ⓘ repository ⓘ supporting subdomain ⓘ ubiquitous language ⓘ value object ⓘ |
| influenced |
enterprise application architecture practices
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event storming and domain modeling practices ⓘ microservices design thinking ⓘ software modeling communities ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
domain modeling traditions in software
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object-oriented analysis and design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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surface form:
Domain-Driven Design
enterprise software development ⓘ strategic design in software ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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surface form:
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) book
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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consultant ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| promotes |
alignment of software model with business domain
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close collaboration between developers and domain experts ⓘ iterative refinement of domain models ⓘ model-driven design ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Input
Subject: Eric Evans Description of subject: Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software