Colin Percival
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Colin Percival is a computer scientist and security expert best known for creating the scrypt key derivation function and for his long-time role as FreeBSD Security Officer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colin Percival canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18281424 — 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: Colin Percival Context triple: [Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography, hasLaureate, Colin Percival]
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A.
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason A. Donenfeld is a software engineer and security researcher best known as the creator of the WireGuard VPN protocol.
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B.
Moxie Marlinspike
Moxie Marlinspike is an American cryptographer, privacy advocate, and creator of the Signal Protocol, widely used for end-to-end encrypted messaging.
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C.
Ben Laurie
Ben Laurie is a British software engineer and security expert known for his contributions to internet infrastructure and cryptography, including work on projects like OpenSSL and various capability-based security systems.
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D.
Adam Langley
Adam Langley is a software engineer and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security protocols and contributions to projects like Google’s TLS infrastructure and modern cryptographic standards.
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E.
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt is a Canadian software engineer best known as the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and as a prominent advocate for free and secure software.
- 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: Colin Percival Target entity description: Colin Percival is a computer scientist and security expert best known for creating the scrypt key derivation function and for his long-time role as FreeBSD Security Officer.
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A.
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason A. Donenfeld is a software engineer and security researcher best known as the creator of the WireGuard VPN protocol.
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B.
Moxie Marlinspike
Moxie Marlinspike is an American cryptographer, privacy advocate, and creator of the Signal Protocol, widely used for end-to-end encrypted messaging.
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C.
Ben Laurie
Ben Laurie is a British software engineer and security expert known for his contributions to internet infrastructure and cryptography, including work on projects like OpenSSL and various capability-based security systems.
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D.
Adam Langley
Adam Langley is a software engineer and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security protocols and contributions to projects like Google’s TLS infrastructure and modern cryptographic standards.
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E.
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt is a Canadian software engineer best known as the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and as a prominent advocate for free and secure software.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.