Rich Hickey
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Rich Hickey is a software developer and language designer best known for creating the Clojure programming language and its associated ecosystem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rich Hickey canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900609 — 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: Rich Hickey Context triple: [Clojure, creator, Rich Hickey]
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A.
Alex Heineman
Alex Heineman is a film producer known for his work on the historical thriller "Operation Finale" and other feature films.
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B.
Eric Evans
Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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C.
Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson is an American singer and songwriter best known as a finalist on the sixth season of "American Idol."
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D.
John Cagan
John Cagan is the namesake of Cagan Stadium, likely a significant benefactor or figure associated with the institution that owns the venue.
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E.
Michael Hillegas
Michael Hillegas was an American merchant and statesman who served as the first Treasurer of the United States during the Revolutionary era.
- 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: Rich Hickey Target entity description: Rich Hickey is a software developer and language designer best known for creating the Clojure programming language and its associated ecosystem.
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A.
Alex Heineman
Alex Heineman is a film producer known for his work on the historical thriller "Operation Finale" and other feature films.
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B.
Eric Evans
Eric Evans is a software engineer and thought leader best known for originating and popularizing the concept of Domain-Driven Design in enterprise software development.
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C.
Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson is an American singer and songwriter best known as a finalist on the sixth season of "American Idol."
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D.
John Cagan
John Cagan is the namesake of Cagan Stadium, likely a significant benefactor or figure associated with the institution that owns the venue.
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E.
Michael Hillegas
Michael Hillegas was an American merchant and statesman who served as the first Treasurer of the United States during the Revolutionary era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
programming language designer ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clojure community
ⓘ
Lisp family of languages ⓘ functional programming community ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Clojure
ⓘ
ClojureScript ⓘ Datomic database design ⓘ
linked to:
Datomic
core.async (Clojure library) ⓘ
linked to:
Clojure core.async
transducers (Clojure feature) ⓘ |
| designed |
Clojure
ⓘ
ClojureScript ⓘ Datomic database model ⓘ
linked to:
Datomic
|
| developedConcept |
hammock-driven development
ⓘ
software design emphasis on simplicity over ease ⓘ time-aware information model in Datomic ⓘ value-oriented programming ⓘ |
| developedForPlatform |
.NET CLR (ClojureCLR)
ⓘ
linked to:
Common Language Runtime
Java Virtual Machine ⓘ JavaScript (ClojureScript) ⓘ
linked to:
ClojureScript
|
| employer | Cognitect ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
programming languages ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| hasTalk |
Are We There Yet?
ⓘ
Clojure Concurrency ⓘ
linked to:
Clojure
Hammock Driven Development ⓘ Simple Made Easy ⓘ Spec-ulation ⓘ The Language of the System ⓘ The Value of Values ⓘ |
| influenced |
Clojure community
ⓘ
linked to:
Clojure
functional programming in industry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Lisp
ⓘ
linked to:
Lisp programming language
concurrency models ⓘ functional programming ⓘ persistent data structures ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating the Clojure programming language ⓘ |
| languageDesigned |
Clojure
ⓘ
ClojureScript ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clojure programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Clojure
ClojureScript ⓘ Datomic ⓘ |
| occupation |
CTO
ⓘ
programming language designer ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | CTO of Cognitect ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Clojure
ⓘ
ClojureScript ⓘ |
| programmingParadigm |
concurrent programming
ⓘ
functional programming ⓘ |
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: Rich Hickey Description of subject: Rich Hickey is a software developer and language designer best known for creating the Clojure programming language and its associated ecosystem.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.