Hector Garcia-Molina
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Hector Garcia-Molina was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and distributed computing, and for his leadership in both academia and industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hector Garcia-Molina canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3450755 — 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: Hector Garcia-Molina Context triple: [ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, notableRecipient, Hector Garcia-Molina]
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A.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is an influential American computer scientist and database pioneer known for creating several landmark database systems and shaping modern data management.
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B.
Jim Gray
Jim Gray was a pioneering computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in database systems and transaction processing, which earned him numerous top honors in the field.
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C.
Abraham Silberschatz
Abraham Silberschatz is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential textbooks on database systems and operating systems, widely used in computer science education.
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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.
Rakesh Agrawal
Rakesh Agrawal is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational contributions to data mining and database systems.
- 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: Hector Garcia-Molina Target entity description: Hector Garcia-Molina was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and distributed computing, and for his leadership in both academia and industry.
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A.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is an influential American computer scientist and database pioneer known for creating several landmark database systems and shaping modern data management.
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B.
Jim Gray
Jim Gray was a pioneering computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in database systems and transaction processing, which earned him numerous top honors in the field.
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C.
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and data mining, including contributions to query optimization and scalable data analysis.
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D.
Abraham Silberschatz
Abraham Silberschatz is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential textbooks on database systems and operating systems, widely used in computer science education.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
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PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Database System Implementation
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Database Systems: The Complete Book ⓘ Elements of Distributed Algorithms ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award
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ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award ⓘ Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ IEEE Fellow ⓘ
surface form:
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member of the National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith |
Jeffrey D. Ullman
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Jennifer Widom ⓘ Raghu Ramakrishnan ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Jeffrey D. Ullman ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Tecnológico de Monterrey
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surface form:
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
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surface form:
Google (as advisor/board roles)
Oracle Corporation ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
censorship-resistant systems
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computer science ⓘ data integration ⓘ database systems ⓘ digital libraries ⓘ distributed computing ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ information management ⓘ peer-to-peer systems ⓘ web information systems ⓘ workflow management ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bridging academia and industry in data management
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leadership in database research ⓘ mentoring many PhD students in databases and distributed systems ⓘ pioneering work in distributed database systems ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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Mexican ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Censorship-resistant publishing systems
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Concurrency control in distributed database systems ⓘ Research on data replication and consistency ⓘ Research on distributed deadlock detection ⓘ Stanford Digital Library Project ⓘ Web-based information systems and search ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Monterrey
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surface form:
Monterrey, Mexico
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| positionHeld |
Chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University
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Director of the Stanford Digital Library Project ⓘ Stanford University professors ⓘ
surface form:
Leonard G. Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University
Member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation ⓘ Member of the Technical Advisory Board of Google ⓘ Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University ⓘ Professor of Computer Science at Stanford 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: Hector Garcia-Molina Description of subject: Hector Garcia-Molina was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and distributed computing, and for his leadership in both academia and industry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.