Fred Brooks

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author computer scientist human software engineer university professor

Fred Brooks was an influential American computer scientist and software engineering pioneer best known for managing IBM’s System/360 project and authoring the classic book "The Mythical Man-Month."

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Fred Brooks canonical	10
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.	9
Fred P. Brooks Jr.	1
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ university professor ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science ⓘ PhD in Applied Mathematics ⓘ
awardReceived	ACM Software System Award ⓘ Harvey Prize ⓘ IEEE John von Neumann Medal ⓘ National Medal of Technology and Innovation ⓘ surface form: National Medal of Technology Turing Award ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1931-04-19 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2022-11-17 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Howard Aiken ⓘ
educatedAt	Duke University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ
employer	IBM ⓘ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ
familyName	Brooks ⓘ
fieldOfWork	computer architecture ⓘ computer science ⓘ software engineering ⓘ
fullName	Fred Brooks self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
givenName	Frederick ⓘ
knownFor	Brooks's law ⓘ founding UNC Department of Computer Science ⓘ leading development of IBM OS/360 ⓘ managing IBM System/360 project ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
notableWork	Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution ⓘ No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering ⓘ The Design of Design ⓘ The Mythical Man-Month ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Durham, North Carolina ⓘ surface form: Durham, North Carolina, United States
placeOfDeath	Chapel Hill, North Carolina ⓘ surface form: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
positionHeld	Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ founding chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ manager of IBM OS/360 development ⓘ project manager of IBM System/360 ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Chapel Hill, North Carolina ⓘ surface form: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Yorktown, New York ⓘ surface form: Yorktown Heights, New York, United States

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: Fred Brooks
Description of subject: Fred Brooks was an influential American computer scientist and software engineering pioneer best known for managing IBM’s System/360 project and authoring the classic book "The Mythical Man-Month."