Bram Moolenaar
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Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer best known as the creator and long-time maintainer of the Vim text editor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bram Moolenaar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900524 — 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: Bram Moolenaar Context triple: [Vim, developer, Bram Moolenaar]
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A.
Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema is a Dutch software engineer and security researcher best known for creating the Postfix mail transfer agent and other influential open-source security tools.
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B.
Gerard Klein
Gerard Klein is a French science fiction writer and editor known for his influential novels and his role in promoting speculative fiction in the Francophone world.
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C.
Dan Berendsen
Dan Berendsen is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on Disney Channel original movies and series such as "Camp Rock," "Hannah Montana: The Movie," and "Baby Daddy."
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D.
Dirk Jellema
Dirk Jellema was a philosopher significant enough in his field that an academic chair in philosophy was established in his name.
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E.
Markus Oberhumer
Markus Oberhumer is an Austrian software developer best known as the creator of the UPX executable packer and contributor to various open-source compression and optimization tools.
- 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: Bram Moolenaar Target entity description: Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer best known as the creator and long-time maintainer of the Vim text editor.
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A.
Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema is a Dutch software engineer and security researcher best known for creating the Postfix mail transfer agent and other influential open-source security tools.
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B.
Gerard Klein
Gerard Klein is a French science fiction writer and editor known for his influential novels and his role in promoting speculative fiction in the Francophone world.
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C.
Dan Berendsen
Dan Berendsen is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on Disney Channel original movies and series such as "Camp Rock," "Hannah Montana: The Movie," and "Baby Daddy."
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D.
Dirk Jellema
Dirk Jellema was a philosopher significant enough in his field that an academic chair in philosophy was established in his name.
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E.
Markus Oberhumer
Markus Oberhumer is an Austrian software developer best known as the creator of the UPX executable packer and contributor to various open-source compression and optimization tools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free software developer
ⓘ
human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | NLUUG Award ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | short illness ⓘ |
| charitableActivity | support for children in Uganda ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Vim ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-08-03 ⓘ |
| employer | Google ⓘ |
| familyName |
Moolenaar
ⓘ
linked to:
Molenaar
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer programming
ⓘ
software engineering ⓘ |
| fundraisingMethod | encouraged Vim users to donate to ICCF Holland ⓘ |
| givenName | Bram ⓘ |
| influenced |
MacVim
ⓘ
Neovim ⓘ gVim ⓘ
linked to:
MacVim
|
| inspiredBy |
vi text editor
ⓘ
linked to:
vi
|
| knownFor |
Vim text editor
ⓘ
linked to:
Vim
|
| languageOfWork |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| licenseModelPromoted | open source ⓘ |
| maintainerOf | Vim ⓘ |
| name | Bram Moolenaar ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Vim plugins
ⓘ
Vim script ⓘ
linked to:
Vim
|
| notableWork | Vim ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
open-source software developer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| originalPlatformOfVim | AmigaOS ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lisse, Netherlands ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Netherlands ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed | C ⓘ |
| projectWebsite | https://www.vim.org/ ⓘ |
| softwareDistribution |
Vim for AmigaOS
ⓘ
linked to:
Vim
Vim for Unix ⓘ
linked to:
Vim
Vim for Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Vim
Vim for macOS ⓘ
linked to:
MacVim
|
| softwarePhilosophy | charityware ⓘ |
| supportedOrganization | International Child Care Fund Holland ⓘ |
| website | https://www.moolenaar.net/ ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Mountain View, California, United States
ⓘ
Zurich, Switzerland ⓘ
linked to:
Zurich
|
| yearOfAwardReceived | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Bram Moolenaar Description of subject: Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer best known as the creator and long-time maintainer of the Vim text editor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.