Bernd Girod
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Bernd Girod is a German-American electrical engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in video compression, multimedia signal processing, and visual communication.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernd Girod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13061785 — 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: Bernd Girod Context triple: [Jitendra Malik, doctoralAdvisor, Bernd Girod]
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A.
Hans-Peter Kriegel
Hans-Peter Kriegel is a German computer scientist renowned for his influential contributions to data mining and database systems, particularly in clustering and similarity search.
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B.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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C.
Rainer G. Rümmler
Rainer G. Rümmler was a German architect best known for designing numerous distinctive Berlin U-Bahn stations in the latter half of the 20th century.
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D.
Stefan F. Graebe
Stefan F. Graebe is a control systems researcher and engineer known for his co-authored work with Graham C. Goodwin in the field of control theory and its applications.
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E.
Dieter W. Heermann
Dieter W. Heermann is a physicist known for his work in computational physics and biophysics, particularly in the modeling of complex systems such as polymers and chromatin.
- 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: Bernd Girod Target entity description: Bernd Girod is a German-American electrical engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in video compression, multimedia signal processing, and visual communication.
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A.
Hans-Peter Kriegel
Hans-Peter Kriegel is a German computer scientist renowned for his influential contributions to data mining and database systems, particularly in clustering and similarity search.
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B.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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C.
Rainer G. Rümmler
Rainer G. Rümmler was a German architect best known for designing numerous distinctive Berlin U-Bahn stations in the latter half of the 20th century.
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D.
Stefan F. Graebe
Stefan F. Graebe is a control systems researcher and engineer known for his co-authored work with Graham C. Goodwin in the field of control theory and its applications.
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E.
Dieter W. Heermann
Dieter W. Heermann is a physicist known for his work in computational physics and biophysics, particularly in the modeling of complex systems such as polymers and chromatin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ electrical engineer ⓘ person ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Hannover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | IEEE Fellow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | Doctorate in electrical engineering ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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electrical engineering ⓘ multimedia signal processing ⓘ video compression ⓘ visual communication ⓘ |
| hasPublishedIn |
multimedia systems conferences
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signal processing conferences ⓘ video coding journals ⓘ |
| hasRole |
educator
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entrepreneur ⓘ inventor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| honor | Fellow of the IEEE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
multimedia signal processing research
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video compression research ⓘ visual communication research ⓘ work on image and video coding ⓘ work on networked video applications ⓘ work on streaming media technologies ⓘ |
| language |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
IEEE
NERFINISHED
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Stanford University faculty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Bernd Girod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German-American ⓘ |
| notableContribution |
algorithms for efficient video compression
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methods for distributed source coding of video ⓘ research on mobile visual search and recognition ⓘ techniques for robust video transmission over networks ⓘ |
| position |
Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University
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Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University ⓘ |
| researchArea |
compression of visual data
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distributed video coding ⓘ image and video communication ⓘ mobile visual search ⓘ multimedia networking ⓘ signal processing for multimedia ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Stanford University 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: Bernd Girod Description of subject: Bernd Girod is a German-American electrical engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in video compression, multimedia signal processing, and visual communication.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.