Edward M. McCreight
E427688
Edward M. McCreight is a computer scientist best known for co-inventing the B-tree data structure, a foundational concept in database and file system design.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ed McCreight | 1 |
| Edward M. McCreight canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4279377 — 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: Edward M. McCreight Context triple: [B-tree, introducedBy, Edward M. McCreight]
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A.
Albert R. Meyer
Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
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B.
Edgar A. Newell
Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
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C.
Henry F. Korth
Henry F. Korth is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and co-authorship of a leading textbook in the field.
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D.
Robert S. Boyer
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
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E.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
- 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: Edward M. McCreight Target entity description: Edward M. McCreight is a computer scientist best known for co-inventing the B-tree data structure, a foundational concept in database and file system design.
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A.
Albert R. Meyer
Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
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B.
Edgar A. Newell
Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
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C.
Henry F. Korth
Henry F. Korth is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in database systems and co-authorship of a leading textbook in the field.
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D.
Robert S. Boyer
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
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E.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bayer–McCreight B-tree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coInventedWith | Rudolf Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
database systems
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file system design ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algorithms
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computer science ⓘ data structures ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | McCreight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Edward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleInitial | M. ⓘ |
| influencedField |
database indexing
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external memory algorithms ⓘ file organization ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-inventing the B-tree data structure
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work in data structures ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableConcept | balanced search trees ⓘ |
| notableWork | B-tree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationTopic |
data storage structures
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search trees ⓘ |
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: Edward M. McCreight Description of subject: Edward M. McCreight is a computer scientist best known for co-inventing the B-tree data structure, a foundational concept in database and file system design.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ed McCreight