Andrew Yao
E271060
Chinese-American person
Turing Award laureate
academic
computer scientist
theoretical computer scientist
Andrew Yao is a Chinese-American computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and as a recipient of the Turing Award.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | 1 |
| Andrew Yao canonical | 1 |
| 姚期智 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2484942 — 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: Andrew Yao Context triple: [Tsinghua University, hasNotableAlumni, Andrew Yao]
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A.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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B.
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.
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C.
Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin is an Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to automata theory, cryptography, and randomized algorithms.
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D.
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant is a renowned computer scientist known for his foundational work in computational learning theory, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence.
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E.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
- 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: Andrew Yao Target entity description: Andrew Yao is a Chinese-American computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and as a recipient of the Turing Award.
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A.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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B.
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.
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C.
Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin is an Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to automata theory, cryptography, and randomized algorithms.
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D.
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Valiant is a renowned computer scientist known for his foundational work in computational learning theory, complexity theory, and artificial intelligence.
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E.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese-American person
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Turing Award laureate ⓘ academic ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ theoretical computer scientist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Donald E. Knuth Prize
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Gödel Prize ⓘ Donald E. Knuth Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Knuth Prize
Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences ⓘ Membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Peking University Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-12-24 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Shanghai
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surface form:
Shanghai, China
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| citizenship |
China
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| degree |
Bachelor’s degree in physics
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PhD in computer science ⓘ PhD in physics ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor |
John Cocke
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Tom E. Hull ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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National Taiwan University ⓘ University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
City University of Hong Kong
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Princeton University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ Tsinghua University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Yao ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algorithm design
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communication complexity ⓘ computational complexity theory ⓘ computer science ⓘ cryptography ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern cryptographic protocol design
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research in communication complexity ⓘ research in randomized algorithms ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
John Cocke
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early work in computational complexity theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yao’s garbled circuits
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Yao’s minimax principle ⓘ communication complexity ⓘ foundational work in computational complexity theory ⓘ pseudorandom number generation theory ⓘ theory of secure computation ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Chinese Academy of Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
|
| name |
Andrew Yao
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
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| nativeName |
Andrew Yao
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
姚期智
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| notableConcept |
Yao’s garbled circuits
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Yao’s minimax principle ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Probabilistic computations: Toward a unified measure of complexity”
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“Protocols for secure computations” ⓘ “Some complexity questions related to distributive computing” ⓘ “Theory and applications of trapdoor functions” ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University
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Professor at Stanford University ⓘ Professor at Tsinghua University ⓘ Professor at UC Berkeley ⓘ Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University ⓘ |
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: Andrew Yao Description of subject: Andrew Yao is a Chinese-American computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and as a recipient of the Turing Award.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
this entity surface form:
姚期智