Kees Cook
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Kees Cook is a prominent open-source and Linux kernel security developer known for his extensive work on hardening the Linux kernel and improving software security practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kees Cook canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T400632 — 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: Kees Cook Context triple: [NLUUG Award, notableRecipient, Kees Cook]
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A.
Danny Darwin
Danny Darwin is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from the late 1970s through the 1990s for several teams, including the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
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B.
Douglas Glenn Colvin
Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known as Dee Dee Ramone, was the bassist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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C.
Daniel Kottke
Daniel Kottke is an early Apple employee and close college friend of Steve Jobs who worked on the original Apple computers.
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D.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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E.
David Mullins
David Mullins is an American man who, along with his partner Charlie Craig, was a complainant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission involving LGBTQ+ rights and religious freedom.
- 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: Kees Cook Target entity description: Kees Cook is a prominent open-source and Linux kernel security developer known for his extensive work on hardening the Linux kernel and improving software security practices.
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A.
Danny Darwin
Danny Darwin is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from the late 1970s through the 1990s for several teams, including the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
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B.
Douglas Glenn Colvin
Douglas Glenn Colvin, better known as Dee Dee Ramone, was the bassist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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C.
Daniel Kottke
Daniel Kottke is an early Apple employee and close college friend of Steve Jobs who worked on the original Apple computers.
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D.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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E.
David Mullins
David Mullins is an American man who, along with his partner Charlie Craig, was a complainant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission involving LGBTQ+ rights and religious freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux kernel developer
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computer security expert ⓘ open-source software developer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| advocates |
defense-in-depth for operating systems
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proactive security in kernel development ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
GNU/Linux
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surface form:
Linux operating system
operating system security ⓘ software hardening techniques ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Linux kernel
ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel mainline
security hardening of user-space and kernel interfaces ⓘ |
| employer | Google ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Linux kernel security
ⓘ
computer security ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
exploit mitigation
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memory safety mitigations ⓘ secure software development practices ⓘ |
| githubUsername | kees ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Linux kernel maintainer
ⓘ
maintainer of Kernel Self Protection Project ⓘ security engineer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Kernel Self Protection Project
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Linux kernel hardening ⓘ security-focused compiler and kernel configurations ⓘ software security practices ⓘ |
| movement | free and open-source software movement ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Linux Security Modules API
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surface form:
Linux kernel security subsystem contributions
advocacy for secure-by-default software configurations ⓘ contributions to exploit mitigation features in Linux ⓘ work on kernel self-protection mechanisms ⓘ |
| occupation |
security engineer
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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C++ ⓘ Python ⓘ |
| speaksAt |
Linux security conferences
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open-source developer events ⓘ |
| supports |
collaborative open-source security improvements
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upstream-first development model ⓘ |
| twitterHandle |
Cook
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surface form:
@kees_cook
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| website | https://outflux.net/ ⓘ |
| worksOn |
Kernel Self Protection Project
ⓘ
improving default security settings in Linux ⓘ reducing attack surface in the Linux kernel ⓘ toolchain-based security features ⓘ |
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: Kees Cook Description of subject: Kees Cook is a prominent open-source and Linux kernel security developer known for his extensive work on hardening the Linux kernel and improving software security practices.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.