Wilson C. Hsieh
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Wilson C. Hsieh is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google Bigtable paper on large-scale distributed storage systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wilson C. Hsieh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7932422 — 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: Wilson C. Hsieh Context triple: [Bigtable, paperAuthorsInclude, Wilson C. Hsieh]
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A.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
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B.
Albert Tsai
Albert Tsai is an American child actor known for his comedic television roles, including his breakout performance on the sitcom "Trophy Wife."
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C.
Eric S. Yuan
Eric S. Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video conferencing platform.
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D.
Andrew T. Hsu
Andrew T. Hsu is an academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of the College of Charleston.
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E.
Philip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential contributions to data mining, databases, and big data analytics.
- 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: Wilson C. Hsieh Target entity description: Wilson C. Hsieh is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google Bigtable paper on large-scale distributed storage systems.
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A.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
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B.
Albert Tsai
Albert Tsai is an American child actor known for his comedic television roles, including his breakout performance on the sitcom "Trophy Wife."
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C.
Eric S. Yuan
Eric S. Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video conferencing platform.
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D.
Andrew T. Hsu
Andrew T. Hsu is an academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of the College of Charleston.
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E.
Philip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential contributions to data mining, databases, and big data analytics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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scientific paper ⓘ |
| affiliation | Google NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | design of scalable storage infrastructure at Google ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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distributed systems ⓘ storage systems ⓘ |
| hasAuthor |
Andrew Fikes
NERFINISHED
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Fay Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ James L. Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ Murali Prabhakaran NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert E. Gruber NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanjay Ghemawat NERFINISHED ⓘ Shun-Tak Leung NERFINISHED ⓘ Sridhar Rajagopalan NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilson C. Hsieh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring the Google Bigtable paper
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research on large-scale distributed storage systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | OSDI 2006 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchArea |
distributed storage systems
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large-scale data storage ⓘ |
| workedOn | Bigtable distributed storage system 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: Wilson C. Hsieh Description of subject: Wilson C. Hsieh is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google Bigtable paper on large-scale distributed storage systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.