Noam Shazeer

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artificial intelligence researcher computer scientist person software engineer

Noam Shazeer is an AI researcher and engineer best known as a co-creator of the Transformer architecture and a key contributor to large-scale neural language models.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Noam Shazeer canonical	3

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4651097 — 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: Noam Shazeer
Context triple: [Transformer, introducedBy, Noam Shazeer]

A. Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, known for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks.
B. Jonathon Shlens
Jonathon Shlens is a computer scientist and researcher known for his contributions to deep learning and computer vision, including influential work at Google.
C. Nicolas Heess
Nicolas Heess is a machine learning researcher known for his work in deep reinforcement learning, including contributions to algorithms such as Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG).
D. Yasha Mazur
Yasha Mazur is the conflicted Jewish magician and acrobat at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel, whose personal struggles with faith, love, and morality drive the story’s tragic arc.
E. Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired by Google.
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: Noam Shazeer
Target entity description: Noam Shazeer is an AI researcher and engineer best known as a co-creator of the Transformer architecture and a key contributor to large-scale neural language models.

A. Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, known for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks.
B. Jonathon Shlens
Jonathon Shlens is a computer scientist and researcher known for his contributions to deep learning and computer vision, including influential work at Google.
C. Nicolas Heess
Nicolas Heess is a machine learning researcher known for his work in deep reinforcement learning, including contributions to algorithms such as Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG).
D. Yasha Mazur
Yasha Mazur is the conflicted Jewish magician and acrobat at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel, whose personal struggles with faith, love, and morality drive the story’s tragic arc.
E. Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a leading AI company acquired by Google.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artificial intelligence researcher ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ
coAuthorOf	Attention Is All You Need NERFINISHED ⓘ Exploring the Limits of Language Modeling NERFINISHED ⓘ On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer NERFINISHED ⓘ Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity NERFINISHED ⓘ
coAuthorWith	Aidan N. Gomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Ashish Vaswani NERFINISHED ⓘ Illia Polosukhin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakob Uszkoreit NERFINISHED ⓘ Llion Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Niki Parmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Łukasz Kaiser NERFINISHED ⓘ
contributedTo	Google’s large-scale language models ⓘ Transformer architecture ⓘ
developed	Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts layer NERFINISHED ⓘ Switch Transformer architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Brown University ⓘ
employer	Google ⓘ Google Brain NERFINISHED ⓘ Google Research NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence ⓘ large language models ⓘ machine learning ⓘ natural language processing ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
knownFor	Mixture-of-Experts models NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts layer NERFINISHED ⓘ Switch Transformer NERFINISHED ⓘ Tensor Processing Unit software contributions ⓘ co-creating the Transformer architecture ⓘ contributions to large-scale neural language models ⓘ work on attention mechanisms in neural networks ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableWork	Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts layer NERFINISHED ⓘ Switch Transformer model NERFINISHED ⓘ Transformer architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	research scientist at Google ⓘ
researchInterest	efficient training of large models ⓘ neural network architectures ⓘ scaling laws for neural networks ⓘ sequence modeling ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Transformer → introducedBy → Noam Shazeer ⓘ

Lukasz Kaiser → notableStudent → Noam Shazeer ⓘ

subject surface form: Łukasz Kaiser

Lukasz Kaiser → collaboratedWith → Noam Shazeer ⓘ