Joe Armstrong
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Joe Armstrong was a Swedish computer scientist and engineer best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language for building scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe Armstrong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4443750 — 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: Joe Armstrong Context triple: [Erlang, designedBy, Joe Armstrong]
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A.
Joe Armstrong
Joe Armstrong is an English actor best known for his role as Allan A Dale in the BBC television series "Robin Hood" (2006).
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B.
Allan Kayser
Allan Kayser is an American actor best known for playing Bubba Higgins on the sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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E.
John Vincent
John Vincent was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the War of 1812, particularly in campaigns on the Niagara frontier.
- 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: Joe Armstrong Target entity description: Joe Armstrong was a Swedish computer scientist and engineer best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language for building scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
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A.
Joe Armstrong
Joe Armstrong is an English actor best known for his role as Allan A Dale in the BBC television series "Robin Hood" (2006).
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B.
Allan Kayser
Allan Kayser is an American actor best known for playing Bubba Higgins on the sitcom "Mama’s Family."
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
Richard Hamlett
Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
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E.
John Vincent
John Vincent was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the War of 1812, particularly in campaigns on the Niagara frontier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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programming language designer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| advocated |
let-it-crash philosophy
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supervision trees in system design ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1950-12-27 ⓘ |
| blog | joearms.github.io ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications following surgery ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Erlang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorWith |
Mike Williams
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Virding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2019-04-20 ⓘ |
| describedIn | obituaries in the programming community ⓘ |
| designed | Erlang virtual machine concepts ⓘ |
| developedFor | telecommunications systems ⓘ |
| employer |
Ericsson
NERFINISHED
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Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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concurrency theory ⓘ distributed computing ⓘ functional programming ⓘ |
| fullName | Joe Leslie Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPublication | Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer) ⓘ |
| influenced |
actor-model-based system design
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concurrent functional languages ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Erlang
NERFINISHED
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concurrent programming ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ fault-tolerant systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
lightweight processes in Erlang
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message-passing concurrency in Erlang ⓘ |
| notableWork | Programming Erlang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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researcher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bournemouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thesisSubject | reliable distributed systems ⓘ |
| thesisTitle | Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Erlang/OTP
NERFINISHED
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Open Telecom Platform NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joe Armstrong Description of subject: Joe Armstrong was a Swedish computer scientist and engineer best known as one of the creators of the Erlang programming language for building scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.