Guido van Rossum

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Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Guido van Rossum canonical 28
Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python 1
gvanrossum 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf computer scientist
person
programmer
software engineer
awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
NLUUG Award
boardMemberOf Python Software Foundation
countryOfCitizenship Netherlands
creatorOf Python
surface form: Python programming language
dateOfBirth 1956-01-31
designed Python
surface form: Python programming language
educatedAt University of Amsterdam
employer Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Dropbox
Google
National Institute of Standards and Technology
familyName Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
surface form: van Rossum
fieldOfWork computer programming
programming language design
software development
fullName Guido van Rossum self-link
githubUsername Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
surface form: gvanrossum
givenName Guido
hasChild one son
influenced modern scripting languages
inspiredBy ABC programming language
Modula-3
knownFor Python
surface form: Python programming language
languageSpoken Dutch
English
memberOf Python Software Foundation
nationality Dutch
notableIdea Python’s batteries-included philosophy
significant whitespace in Python syntax
notableWork Python Enhancement Proposals
Python reference implementation (CPython)
occupation author
programmer
software engineer
placeOfBirth Haarlem, Netherlands
positionHeld Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
surface form: Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python
programmingLanguage C
Python
residence United States of America
surface form: United States
retiredFromRole Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python in 2018
spouse Kim Knapp

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: Guido van Rossum
Description of subject: Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language.

Referenced by (31)

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

Guido van Rossum fullName Guido van Rossum self-link
Guido van Rossum familyName Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: van Rossum
Guido van Rossum positionHeld Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python
Guido van Rossum githubUsername Guido van Rossum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: gvanrossum
Python creator Guido van Rossum
Python designedBy Guido van Rossum
Python reference implementation (CPython) originalAuthor Guido van Rossum
subject surface form: CPython
NLUUG Award notableRecipient Guido van Rossum
Python Software Foundation foundedBy Guido van Rossum
ABC programming language influenced Guido van Rossum
Guido notableBearer Guido van Rossum
PEP 622 author Guido van Rossum
Lambert Meertens influenced Guido van Rossum
Lambert Meertens notableStudent Guido van Rossum
PEP 572 sponsor Guido van Rossum
PEP 572 bdfDelegate Guido van Rossum
Kim Knapp spouse Guido van Rossum
Leo Geurts hasNotableStudent Guido van Rossum
PEP 634 sponsor Guido van Rossum
PEP 634 bdflDelegate Guido van Rossum
PEP 635 author Guido van Rossum
PEP 8016 replacesPersonAsBDFL Guido van Rossum
Assignment Expressions bdfLDecisionBy Guido van Rossum
PEP 636 author Guido van Rossum
PEP 484 createdBy Guido van Rossum
PEP 585 author Guido van Rossum