Trevor Perrin
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Trevor Perrin is a cryptographer and software engineer best known for creating the Noise protocol framework and co-designing the Signal Protocol used in secure messaging.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trevor Perrin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2114122 — 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: Trevor Perrin Context triple: [Noise protocol framework, designedBy, Trevor Perrin]
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A.
Brandon Perlman
Brandon Perlman is the son of American actor Ron Perlman and works as a music producer and DJ.
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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D.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
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E.
Nicholas Knisely
Nicholas Knisely is an American Episcopal bishop and former physicist who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island.
- 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: Trevor Perrin Target entity description: Trevor Perrin is a cryptographer and software engineer best known for creating the Noise protocol framework and co-designing the Signal Protocol used in secure messaging.
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A.
Brandon Perlman
Brandon Perlman is the son of American actor Ron Perlman and works as a music producer and DJ.
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Steve Goodrich
Steve Goodrich is a former American basketball player best known as a standout center for Princeton University in the late 1990s, where he helped lead the Tigers to national prominence.
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D.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
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E.
Nicholas Knisely
Nicholas Knisely is an American Episcopal bishop and former physicist who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cryptographer
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software engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
open-source cryptography projects
ⓘ
secure messaging community ⓘ |
| coDesignerOf |
Signal protocol
ⓘ
surface form:
Signal Protocol
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| contributedTo |
design of modern messaging security properties
ⓘ
end-to-end encryption protocols ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Noise protocol framework ⓘ |
| designed |
Noise protocol framework
ⓘ
surface form:
Noise handshake patterns
Noise protocol framework ⓘ
surface form:
Noise protocol framework specification
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer security
ⓘ
cryptography ⓘ secure messaging protocols ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
asynchronous messaging security
ⓘ
forward secrecy ⓘ key exchange protocols ⓘ protocol design ⓘ public-key cryptography ⓘ secure channel protocols ⓘ transport security ⓘ |
| influenced | modern secure messaging designs ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
development of end-to-end encrypted messaging
ⓘ
standardization discussions around secure protocols ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Noise protocol framework
ⓘ
co-designing the Signal Protocol ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Noise protocol framework
ⓘ
Signal protocol ⓘ
surface form:
Signal Protocol
|
| proposed | concepts used in the Signal Protocol ⓘ |
| worksOn |
cryptographic protocol engineering
ⓘ
secure communication systems ⓘ |
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: Trevor Perrin Description of subject: Trevor Perrin is a cryptographer and software engineer best known for creating the Noise protocol framework and co-designing the Signal Protocol used in secure messaging.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.