Marshall Pease
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Marshall Pease is a computer scientist best known for co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem in distributed computing and fault tolerance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marshall Pease canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4765341 — 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: Marshall Pease Context triple: [Byzantine Generals Problem, hasAuthor, Marshall Pease]
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A.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
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B.
Marshall Harvey
Marshall Harvey is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the dark comedy "The 'Burbs."
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C.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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D.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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E.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
- 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: Marshall Pease Target entity description: Marshall Pease is a computer scientist best known for co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem in distributed computing and fault tolerance.
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A.
Paul Satterfield
Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
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B.
Marshall Harvey
Marshall Harvey is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the dark comedy "The 'Burbs."
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C.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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D.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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E.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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problem in distributed computing ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Byzantine Generals Problem
NERFINISHED
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theory of fault tolerance in distributed systems ⓘ |
| describes | how to achieve agreement in the presence of faulty or malicious components ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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distributed computing ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ fault tolerance ⓘ fault-tolerant computing ⓘ |
| hasRole | researcher in distributed algorithms ⓘ |
| influenced | research on consensus algorithms in distributed systems ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem ⓘ |
| notableWork | paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem ⓘ |
| usedIn | design of fault-tolerant distributed protocols ⓘ |
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: Marshall Pease Description of subject: Marshall Pease is a computer scientist best known for co-authoring the seminal paper that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem in distributed computing and fault tolerance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.