Wes McKinney
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Wes McKinney is an American software developer and author best known as the original creator of the Python data analysis library pandas and a key figure in the open-source data science ecosystem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wes McKinney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18015929 — 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: Wes McKinney Context triple: [Pandas Developers, hasNotableMember, Wes McKinney]
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A.
Patrick Volkerding
Patrick Volkerding is an American software engineer best known as the founder and long-time maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, one of the oldest surviving Linux distros.
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B.
Kody Groves
Kody Groves is known as the brother of the late American singer-songwriter Cady Groves.
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C.
Andrew Tridgell
Andrew Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known for creating the Samba software suite and contributing extensively to free and open-source software.
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D.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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E.
Nick Mathewson
Nick Mathewson is a computer scientist and software developer best known as a co-founder and core architect of the Tor anonymity network.
- 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: Wes McKinney Target entity description: Wes McKinney is an American software developer and author best known as the original creator of the Python data analysis library pandas and a key figure in the open-source data science ecosystem.
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A.
Patrick Volkerding
Patrick Volkerding is an American software engineer best known as the founder and long-time maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution, one of the oldest surviving Linux distros.
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B.
Kody Groves
Kody Groves is known as the brother of the late American singer-songwriter Cady Groves.
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C.
Andrew Tridgell
Andrew Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known for creating the Samba software suite and contributing extensively to free and open-source software.
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D.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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E.
Nick Mathewson
Nick Mathewson is a computer scientist and software developer best known as a co-founder and core architect of the Tor anonymity network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.