Benny Pinkas
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Benny Pinkas is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving protocols, and applied cryptography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benny Pinkas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3945340 — 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: Benny Pinkas Context triple: [Mihir Bellare, coAuthor, Benny Pinkas]
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A.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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B.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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C.
Meir Vilner
Meir Vilner was a prominent Israeli communist politician and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Israel Fankuchen
Israel Fankuchen was an American physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in X-ray diffraction and materials science, honored by the establishment of the Fankuchen Award in his name.
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E.
Tzvika Brot
Tzvika Brot is an Israeli politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Bat Yam.
- 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: Benny Pinkas Target entity description: Benny Pinkas is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving protocols, and applied cryptography.
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A.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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B.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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C.
Meir Vilner
Meir Vilner was a prominent Israeli communist politician and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Israel Fankuchen
Israel Fankuchen was an American physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in X-ray diffraction and materials science, honored by the establishment of the Fankuchen Award in his name.
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E.
Tzvika Brot
Tzvika Brot is an Israeli politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Bat Yam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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cryptographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicStatus | faculty member at an Israeli university ⓘ |
| citizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
applied cryptographic protocol design
NERFINISHED
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design of privacy-preserving protocols ⓘ development of practical secure multi-party computation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
applied cryptography
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computer security ⓘ cryptography ⓘ privacy-preserving protocols ⓘ secure multi-party computation ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | computer science ⓘ |
| hasRole |
academic researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| knownFor |
applied cryptography research
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privacy-preserving computation ⓘ secure multi-party computation protocols ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli ⓘ |
| notableWorkArea |
oblivious transfer
NERFINISHED
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privacy-preserving data analysis ⓘ secure computation ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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cryptographer ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| publishesIn |
computer security conferences
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cryptography conferences ⓘ theoretical computer science journals ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
cryptographic protocols
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efficiency of cryptographic protocols ⓘ multi-party computation ⓘ oblivious transfer protocols ⓘ privacy in data mining ⓘ secure two-party computation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Benny Pinkas Description of subject: Benny Pinkas is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving protocols, and applied cryptography.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.