Thomas A. Henzinger
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Thomas A. Henzinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational work in formal verification, hybrid systems, and the theory of real-time and embedded systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas A. Henzinger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2151841 — 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: Thomas A. Henzinger Context triple: [Rajeev Alur, coAuthor, Thomas A. Henzinger]
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A.
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to formal methods, automata theory, and the verification of real-time and hybrid systems.
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B.
Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist best known for co-inventing model checking, a breakthrough technique in formal verification that earned him the Turing Award.
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C.
Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Y. Vardi is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in logic in computer science, database theory, and automated verification.
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D.
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Jeffrey D. Ullman is a prominent American computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to database theory, algorithms, and formal languages, and for coauthoring several classic textbooks in computer science.
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E.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
- 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: Thomas A. Henzinger Target entity description: Thomas A. Henzinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational work in formal verification, hybrid systems, and the theory of real-time and embedded systems.
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A.
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to formal methods, automata theory, and the verification of real-time and hybrid systems.
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B.
Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke was an American computer scientist best known for co-inventing model checking, a breakthrough technique in formal verification that earned him the Turing Award.
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C.
Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Y. Vardi is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in logic in computer science, database theory, and automated verification.
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D.
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Jeffrey D. Ullman is a prominent American computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to database theory, algorithms, and formal languages, and for coauthoring several classic textbooks in computer science.
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E.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AAAS Fellow
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Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ
surface form:
ACM Fellow
ERC Advanced Grant ⓘ Honorary doctorate from Masaryk University ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Zohar Manna ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Cornell University
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École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ⓘ
surface form:
EPFL
Institute of Science and Technology Austria ⓘ
surface form:
IST Austria
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
automata theory
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concurrency theory ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ formal verification ⓘ hybrid systems ⓘ model checking ⓘ reactive systems ⓘ real-time systems ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt |
Cornell University
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria ⓘ
surface form:
IST Austria
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ⓘ
surface form:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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| knownFor |
algorithmic verification of reactive systems
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foundational work in formal verification ⓘ hybrid automata ⓘ theory of hybrid systems ⓘ theory of real-time and embedded systems ⓘ timed automata ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Europaea
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Austrian Academy of Sciences ⓘ Leopoldina ⓘ |
| notableWork |
algorithms for model checking of real-time systems
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theory of hybrid automata ⓘ theory of timed automata ⓘ verification of embedded and hybrid systems ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Linz ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of IST Austria
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professor of computer science at EPFL ⓘ professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
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: Thomas A. Henzinger Description of subject: Thomas A. Henzinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational work in formal verification, hybrid systems, and the theory of real-time and embedded systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.