Timothy C. May
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Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
All labels observed (1)
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| Timothy C. May canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4979699 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy C. May Context triple: [Cypherpunks mailing list, notableParticipant, Timothy C. May]
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Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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Stanley Grenz
Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
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John Howard Yoder
John Howard Yoder was an American Mennonite theologian best known for his influential Christian pacifist ethics and his seminal work "The Politics of Jesus."
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J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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Matthew Fuller
Matthew Fuller is a descendant of filmmaker Samuel Fuller, known primarily in relation to his famous relative.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Timothy C. May Target entity description: Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
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A.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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B.
Stanley Grenz
Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
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C.
John Howard Yoder
John Howard Yoder was an American Mennonite theologian best known for his influential Christian pacifist ethics and his seminal work "The Politics of Jesus."
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D.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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E.
Matthew Fuller
Matthew Fuller is a descendant of filmmaker Samuel Fuller, known primarily in relation to his famous relative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cypherpunk
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engineer ⓘ human ⓘ political writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| coFounded | cypherpunk movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018 ⓘ |
| employer | Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer security
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crypto-anarchism ⓘ cryptography ⓘ digital privacy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political writing ⓘ technology writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
cryptocurrency culture
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cypherpunk movement NERFINISHED ⓘ digital privacy activism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
NERFINISHED
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The Cyphernomicon NERFINISHED ⓘ influential essays on crypto-anarchism ⓘ influential essays on cryptography ⓘ influential essays on digital privacy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | cypherpunks mailing list NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | cypherpunk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Timothy C. May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
crypto-anarchism
NERFINISHED
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use of strong cryptography for privacy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
NERFINISHED
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The Cyphernomicon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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engineer ⓘ political writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
civil liberties
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computer networks ⓘ encryption policy ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Timothy C. May Description of subject: Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.