Paul Lindner
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Paul Lindner is a software engineer best known as one of the original co-authors and developers of the Gopher internet protocol at the University of Minnesota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Lindner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9515360 — 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: Paul Lindner Context triple: [Gopher, creator, Paul Lindner]
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A.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber is a German conservative politician who served for many years as Minister-President of Bavaria and became a prominent national figure as the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in 2002.
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B.
Robert M. Lindner
Robert M. Lindner was an American psychoanalyst and author whose work on juvenile delinquency and psychology influenced mid-20th-century views on rebellious youth.
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C.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
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D.
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Karl Lindner
Karl Lindner is a white representative of a neighborhood association in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," known for attempting to bribe the Younger family to prevent them from moving into a white neighborhood.
- 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: Paul Lindner Target entity description: Paul Lindner is a software engineer best known as one of the original co-authors and developers of the Gopher internet protocol at the University of Minnesota.
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A.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber is a German conservative politician who served for many years as Minister-President of Bavaria and became a prominent national figure as the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in 2002.
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B.
Robert M. Lindner
Robert M. Lindner was an American psychoanalyst and author whose work on juvenile delinquency and psychology influenced mid-20th-century views on rebellious youth.
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C.
Michael Schultz
Michael Schultz is an American film and television director best known for his influential work on 1970s comedies and dramas, including the cult classic "Car Wash."
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D.
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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E.
Karl Lindner
Karl Lindner is a white representative of a neighborhood association in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," known for attempting to bribe the Younger family to prevent them from moving into a white neighborhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Gopher protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedAt | University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developerOf | Gopher protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer networking
ⓘ
internet protocols ⓘ |
| genre | internet software ⓘ |
| hasRole |
protocol designer
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| knownFor | Gopher protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | early Internet development ⓘ |
| notability |
one of the original co-authors of the Gopher internet protocol
ⓘ
one of the original developers of the Gopher internet protocol ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Gopher client software
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Gopher server software ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gopher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
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software engineer ⓘ |
| partOf | original Gopher development team ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Minnesota 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: Paul Lindner Description of subject: Paul Lindner is a software engineer best known as one of the original co-authors and developers of the Gopher internet protocol at the University of Minnesota.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.