Danny Hillis
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Danny Hillis is an American inventor, computer scientist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering parallel computing and co-founding Thinking Machines Corporation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Hillis canonical | 3 |
| W. Daniel Hillis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15575912 — 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: Danny Hillis Context triple: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Danny Hillis]
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A.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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B.
Sydney M. Mead
Sydney M. Mead is a scholar of religion known for his influential work on American religious history and the role of religion in shaping national identity.
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C.
Roy Neary
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive encounter with a UFO drives the central narrative of the science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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D.
Hank Greenspun
Hank Greenspun was an American newspaper publisher, political activist, and philanthropist best known as the influential owner of the Las Vegas Sun.
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E.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
- 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: Danny Hillis Target entity description: Danny Hillis is an American inventor, computer scientist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering parallel computing and co-founding Thinking Machines Corporation.
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A.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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B.
Sydney M. Mead
Sydney M. Mead is a scholar of religion known for his influential work on American religious history and the role of religion in shaping national identity.
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C.
Roy Neary
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive encounter with a UFO drives the central narrative of the science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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D.
Hank Greenspun
Hank Greenspun was an American newspaper publisher, political activist, and philanthropist best known as the influential owner of the Las Vegas Sun.
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E.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Danny Hillis
linked to: Danny Hillis