Jon L. White
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Jon L. White was a computer scientist best known for his significant contributions to the development and implementation of the Maclisp programming language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon L. White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5582323 — 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: Jon L. White Context triple: [Maclisp, notablePerson, Jon L. White]
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A.
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter is an American actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Parenthood" and "Joan of Arcadia."
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B.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
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C.
Eric Bauza
Eric Bauza is a Canadian voice actor and comedian best known for portraying iconic animated characters in modern Looney Tunes productions.
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D.
Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
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E.
Scott Oake
Scott Oake is a Canadian sportscaster best known for his long-running work as a rinkside reporter and host on national hockey broadcasts.
- 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: Jon L. White Target entity description: Jon L. White was a computer scientist best known for his significant contributions to the development and implementation of the Maclisp programming language.
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A.
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter is an American actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Parenthood" and "Joan of Arcadia."
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B.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
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C.
Eric Bauza
Eric Bauza is a Canadian voice actor and comedian best known for portraying iconic animated characters in modern Looney Tunes productions.
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D.
Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
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E.
Scott Oake
Scott Oake is a Canadian sportscaster best known for his long-running work as a rinkside reporter and host on national hockey broadcasts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | computer scientist ⓘ |
| affiliation | Maclisp community ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
Lisp systems
ⓘ
programming languages ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Maclisp programming language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developed | Maclisp implementation ⓘ |
| field | computer science ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Maclisp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
development of Maclisp ⓘ implementation of Maclisp ⓘ |
| languageWorkedOn | Lisp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | significant contributions to Maclisp ⓘ |
| notableWork | Maclisp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | computer scientist ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Lisp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jon L. White Description of subject: Jon L. White was a computer scientist best known for his significant contributions to the development and implementation of the Maclisp programming language.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.