Eric A. Brewer
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Eric A. Brewer is a computer scientist best known for formulating the CAP theorem and for his influential work on scalable, distributed internet systems.
All labels observed (1)
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| Eric A. Brewer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3839533 — 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: Eric A. Brewer Context triple: [ACM Distinguished Service Award, notableRecipient, Eric A. Brewer]
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A.
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport is an American computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in distributed systems, concurrency, and formal methods, including the development of the Paxos consensus algorithm and the LaTeX document preparation system.
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B.
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in computer systems and performance evaluation, as well as his leadership in computing research and education policy.
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C.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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D.
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin is a British-American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building consumer products conglomerates such as Jarden Corporation through aggressive acquisitions and value-focused management.
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E.
Hector Garcia-Molina
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.
- 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: Eric A. Brewer Target entity description: Eric A. Brewer is a computer scientist best known for formulating the CAP theorem and for his influential work on scalable, distributed internet systems.
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A.
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport is an American computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in distributed systems, concurrency, and formal methods, including the development of the Paxos consensus algorithm and the LaTeX document preparation system.
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B.
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in computer systems and performance evaluation, as well as his leadership in computing research and education policy.
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C.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
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D.
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin is a British-American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building consumer products conglomerates such as Jarden Corporation through aggressive acquisitions and value-focused management.
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E.
Hector Garcia-Molina
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ engineer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | electrical engineering and computer sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Google
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
cloud services engineering
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distributed systems research community ⓘ internet infrastructure design ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| contribution |
advanced the design of scalable internet services
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contributed to the understanding of trade-offs in distributed systems ⓘ proposed the CAP theorem for distributed systems ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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distributed systems ⓘ internet systems ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudent | researchers in distributed systems (collectively) ⓘ |
| influenced |
design of large-scale web services
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design of modern distributed databases ⓘ theory and practice of distributed computing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
formulating the CAP theorem
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research on cluster-based services ⓘ research on distributed computing ⓘ research on fault-tolerant systems ⓘ research on internet architecture ⓘ research on large-scale infrastructure ⓘ research on scalable web services ⓘ work on scalable distributed internet systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Eric A. Brewer self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableConcept | CAP theorem ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineering leader at Google
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professor of computer science ⓘ |
| position | faculty member at UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
cloud computing
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distributed computing ⓘ fault tolerance ⓘ internet infrastructure ⓘ scalability ⓘ web services ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley
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surface form:
Berkeley, California
Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain View, California
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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: Eric A. Brewer Description of subject: Eric A. Brewer is a computer scientist best known for formulating the CAP theorem and for his influential work on scalable, distributed internet systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.