E. Allen Emerson
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E. Allen Emerson is a prominent computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in model checking and temporal logic in formal verification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| E. Allen Emerson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364393 — 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: E. Allen Emerson Context triple: [Herbrand Award, notableRecipient, E. Allen Emerson]
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A.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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B.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was an American civil liberties advocate and social reformer best known as a principal founder and long-time leader of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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E.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- 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: E. Allen Emerson Target entity description: E. Allen Emerson is a prominent computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in model checking and temporal logic in formal verification.
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A.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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B.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was an American civil liberties advocate and social reformer best known as a principal founder and long-time leader of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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E.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
formal methods in hardware verification
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formal methods in software verification ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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surface form:
AAAS Fellow
Turing Award ⓘ
surface form:
ACM A. M. Turing Award
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ
surface form:
ACM Fellow
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ⓘ
surface form:
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
CAV Award ⓘ EATCS Award ⓘ Kaufman Award in Formal Methods ⓘ Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ⓘ Turing Award ⓘ member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ member of the National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coRecipientOf |
Turing Award with Edmund M. Clarke
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Turing Award with Joseph Sifakis ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Ashok Chandra ⓘ |
| doctoralStudent |
Kedar Namjoshi
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Orna Kupferman ⓘ Rance Cleaveland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Texas at Austin ⓘ Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin ⓘ
surface form:
University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science
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| employer | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
formal verification ⓘ model checking ⓘ temporal logic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | development of industrial model checking tools ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to formal methods
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pioneering work in model checking ⓘ pioneering work in temporal logic for verification ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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IEEE Computer Society ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
CTL*
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branching-time temporal logic ⓘ |
| notableWork |
branching-time temporal logic CTL*
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development of temporal logic model checking ⓘ theoretical foundations of model checking ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
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: E. Allen Emerson Description of subject: E. Allen Emerson is a prominent computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in model checking and temporal logic in formal verification.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edmund M. Clarke