Gastón Gonnet
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Gastón Gonnet is a Uruguayan-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText and a key contributor to the development of the Maple computer algebra system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gastón Gonnet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7885468 — 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: Gastón Gonnet Context triple: [OpenText Corporation, foundedBy, Gastón Gonnet]
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A.
Andrés Nocioni
Andrés Nocioni is a retired Argentine professional basketball forward best known for his role on Argentina’s “Golden Generation” and his NBA career with the Chicago Bulls and other teams.
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B.
Marcelo Claure
Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian-American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the former CEO of Sprint Corporation and a prominent executive at SoftBank.
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C.
Luis Martínez-Feduchi
Luis Martínez-Feduchi was a Spanish architect known for his influential early 20th-century modernist works in Madrid.
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D.
Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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E.
John Huarte
John Huarte is a former American football quarterback best known for winning the 1964 Heisman Trophy while starring at the University of Notre Dame.
- 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: Gastón Gonnet Target entity description: Gastón Gonnet is a Uruguayan-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText and a key contributor to the development of the Maple computer algebra system.
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A.
Andrés Nocioni
Andrés Nocioni is a retired Argentine professional basketball forward best known for his role on Argentina’s “Golden Generation” and his NBA career with the Chicago Bulls and other teams.
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B.
Marcelo Claure
Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian-American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the former CEO of Sprint Corporation and a prominent executive at SoftBank.
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C.
Luis Martínez-Feduchi
Luis Martínez-Feduchi was a Spanish architect known for his influential early 20th-century modernist works in Madrid.
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D.
Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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E.
John Huarte
John Huarte is a former American football quarterback best known for winning the 1964 Heisman Trophy while starring at the University of Notre Dame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Fellow
NERFINISHED
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Royal Society of Canada Fellow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Maplesoft
NERFINISHED
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OpenText Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Maple computer algebra system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxford English Dictionary electronic text project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
Uruguay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developed | early versions of Maple ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
ETH Zurich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algorithms
ⓘ
computer algebra ⓘ computer science ⓘ digital libraries ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ |
| founded | ETH Zurich Institute for Scientific Computing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation |
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
NERFINISHED
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Zurich, Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding OpenText
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development of the Maple computer algebra system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Society of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Joachim von zur Gathen
NERFINISHED
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Maple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Oxford English Dictionary project at University of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenText NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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professor ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
faculty member at University of Waterloo
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professor at ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
digital libraries
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string algorithms ⓘ symbolic computation ⓘ text retrieval ⓘ |
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: Gastón Gonnet Description of subject: Gastón Gonnet is a Uruguayan-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenText and a key contributor to the development of the Maple computer algebra system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.