Rob McCool
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Rob McCool is an American software engineer best known for his pioneering work on early web server technology, including contributions that influenced the development of the Apache HTTP Server.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rob McCool canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9515468 — 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: Rob McCool Context triple: [NCSA HTTPd, creator, Rob McCool]
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A.
Jack McVea
Jack McVea was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist and bandleader best known for his work in the 1940s jump blues scene and for co-writing the hit song "Open the Door, Richard."
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B.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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C.
Dave McCary
Dave McCary is an American writer, director, and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for co-founding the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.
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D.
Jim Coates
Jim Coates is the husband of Katie Coates, known primarily in relation to her.
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E.
Brian McGee
Brian McGee is a Scottish drummer best known as a founding member and early drummer of the rock band Simple Minds.
- 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: Rob McCool Target entity description: Rob McCool is an American software engineer best known for his pioneering work on early web server technology, including contributions that influenced the development of the Apache HTTP Server.
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A.
Jack McVea
Jack McVea was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist and bandleader best known for his work in the 1940s jump blues scene and for co-writing the hit song "Open the Door, Richard."
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B.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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C.
Dave McCary
Dave McCary is an American writer, director, and comedian best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and for co-founding the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.
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D.
Jim Coates
Jim Coates is the husband of Katie Coates, known primarily in relation to her.
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E.
Brian McGee
Brian McGee is a Scottish drummer best known as a founding member and early drummer of the rock band Simple Minds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
computer programmer ⓘ person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| activityStart | early 1990s ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| contributedTo | Apache HTTP Server design NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developed | NCSA HTTPd web server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | National Center for Supercomputing Applications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early World Wide Web ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
internet software ⓘ web technologies ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | Apache HTTP Server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | emergence of the World Wide Web ⓘ |
| knownFor |
NCSA HTTPd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early web server technology ⓘ influencing Apache HTTP Server ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notability | pioneer of web server software ⓘ |
| notableWork |
NCSA HTTPd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early HTTP server implementations ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingDomain |
server software
ⓘ
web servers ⓘ |
| workLocation | NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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: Rob McCool Description of subject: Rob McCool is an American software engineer best known for his pioneering work on early web server technology, including contributions that influenced the development of the Apache HTTP Server.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.