Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a prominent Linux kernel developer best known as the long-time maintainer of the stable kernel branch and a key figure in the kernel community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greg Kroah-Hartman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T286897 — 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman Context triple: [Linux, stableReleasesMaintainedBy, Greg Kroah-Hartman]
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A.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
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B.
Eric Raymond
Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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C.
Scott Chacon
Scott Chacon is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of GitHub and an influential author and speaker on Git and distributed version control.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
- 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman Target entity description: Greg Kroah-Hartman is a prominent Linux kernel developer best known as the long-time maintainer of the stable kernel branch and a key figure in the kernel community.
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A.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
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B.
Eric Raymond
Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.
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C.
Scott Chacon
Scott Chacon is a software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of GitHub and an influential author and speaker on Git and distributed version control.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux kernel developer
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open source contributor ⓘ person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| advocates |
Linux kernel best practices
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open source software ⓘ |
| communityRole | key figure in the Linux kernel community ⓘ |
| employer |
Linux Foundation
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surface form:
The Linux Foundation
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| familyName | Kroah-Hartman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Linux kernel
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open source software ⓘ operating systems ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
hardware support in Linux
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kernel stability ⓘ long-term support kernels ⓘ |
| fullName | Greg Kroah-Hartman self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Greg ⓘ |
| hasContribution |
documenting Linux kernel development processes
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improving Linux device driver infrastructure ⓘ maintaining long-term support Linux kernel releases ⓘ maintaining the Linux kernel stable API for userspace ⓘ reviewing and integrating Linux kernel patches ⓘ |
| hasRole | maintainer of multiple Linux kernel subsystems ⓘ |
| influences |
Linux kernel quality assurance
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Linux kernel release process ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Linux device driver work
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Linux kernel community leadership ⓘ Linux kernel development ⓘ maintaining the Linux kernel stable branch ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Linux kernel community ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Linux kernel driver core
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Linux kernel stable releases ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel stable tree
Linux kernel staging tree ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Linux kernel stable branch maintainer
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Linux kernel subsystem maintainer ⓘ |
| occupation |
Linux kernel maintainer
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author ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| softwareDevelopmentMethodology | open source development ⓘ |
| softwarePlatform | Linux ⓘ |
| speaksAt | Linux and open source conferences ⓘ |
| worksOn |
Linux kernel USB subsystem
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Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel driver core
Linux kernel stable releases ⓘ Linux kernel staging tree ⓘ |
| writes |
Linux kernel development documentation
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technical articles about Linux ⓘ |
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman Description of subject: Greg Kroah-Hartman is a prominent Linux kernel developer best known as the long-time maintainer of the stable kernel branch and a key figure in the kernel community.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Greg Kroah-Hartman