Richard M. Murray
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Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to feedback control, robotics, and systems biology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard M. Murray canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2646014 — 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: Richard M. Murray Context triple: [Karl J. Åström, coAuthor, Richard M. Murray]
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Gene F. Franklin
Gene F. Franklin was an influential American control systems engineer and educator known for his foundational contributions to control theory and engineering education.
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B.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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C.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Daniel C. Drucker
Daniel C. Drucker was a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician known for his influential contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
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E.
David M. Brown
David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
- 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: Richard M. Murray Target entity description: Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to feedback control, robotics, and systems biology.
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A.
Gene F. Franklin
Gene F. Franklin was an influential American control systems engineer and educator known for his foundational contributions to control theory and engineering education.
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B.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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C.
David R. Francis
David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Daniel C. Drucker
Daniel C. Drucker was a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician known for his influential contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
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E.
David M. Brown
David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
control theorist
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engineer ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
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PhD in Engineering ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech
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surface form:
Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology
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| awardReceived |
membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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membership in the National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Karl J. Åström
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Roger W. Brockett ⓘ Shankar Sastry ⓘ
surface form:
S. Shankar Sastry
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Institute of Technology
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
control theory
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feedback control ⓘ robotics ⓘ synthetic biology ⓘ systems biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | J. Karl Hedrick ⓘ |
| hasTaught |
control theory
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dynamical systems ⓘ feedback systems ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to feedback control
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contributions to robotics ⓘ contributions to systems biology ⓘ textbooks on control and robotics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| name | Richard M. Murray self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation
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Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
autonomous vehicles
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biomolecular feedback systems ⓘ networked control systems ⓘ nonlinear control ⓘ |
| workplace | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
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: Richard M. Murray Description of subject: Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to feedback control, robotics, and systems biology.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.