Walter Willinger
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Walter Willinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in Internet traffic modeling, network measurement, and the application of fractal and self-similar processes to communication networks.
All labels observed (1)
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| Walter Willinger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3665767 — 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: Walter Willinger Context triple: [ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Walter Willinger]
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Walter Wottitz
Walter Wottitz was a French cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the World War II epic film "The Longest Day."
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C.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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D.
Thomas Ehrlich
Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
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E.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
- 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: Walter Willinger Target entity description: Walter Willinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in Internet traffic modeling, network measurement, and the application of fractal and self-similar processes to communication networks.
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Walter Wottitz
Walter Wottitz was a French cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the World War II epic film "The Longest Day."
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C.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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D.
Thomas Ehrlich
Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
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E.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| educatedAt | ETH Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employerType | industrial research lab ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
applied mathematics
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queueing theory ⓘ stochastic processes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Internet traffic modeling
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applied probability in networks ⓘ computer networking ⓘ fractal processes in communication networks ⓘ network measurement ⓘ performance evaluation of communication networks ⓘ self-similar network traffic ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Viktor Beneš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoAuthor |
Allan Feldmann
NERFINISHED
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Cheng Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Veitch NERFINISHED ⓘ Kihong Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Murad S. Taqqu NERFINISHED ⓘ R. G. Clegg NERFINISHED ⓘ R. Govindan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shivkumar Kalyanaraman NERFINISHED ⓘ Vern Paxson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
AT&T Labs
NERFINISHED
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AT&T Labs–Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Internet topology measurement and analysis
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advancing measurement-based network engineering ⓘ challenging Poisson-based traffic models in networking ⓘ critique of simplistic Internet topology models ⓘ demonstrating self-similarity in Ethernet traffic ⓘ showing long-range dependence in network traffic ⓘ use of multifractal models for network traffic ⓘ work on heavy-tailed distributions in network traffic ⓘ |
| memberOf |
ACM
NERFINISHED
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IEEE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Critique of Self-Similar Traffic
NERFINISHED
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On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Validity of Poisson Models for Network Traffic NERFINISHED ⓘ Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation NERFINISHED ⓘ Self-Similarity in High-Speed Packet Traffic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Internet as a Complex System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Internet topology
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complex networks ⓘ measurement-based modeling ⓘ network performance modeling ⓘ traffic engineering ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Walter Willinger Description of subject: Walter Willinger is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in Internet traffic modeling, network measurement, and the application of fractal and self-similar processes to communication networks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.