Wilfred Corrigan
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Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor industry executive best known for leading LSI Logic and playing a key role in the development of the fabless semiconductor business model.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wilfred Corrigan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T638462 — 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: Wilfred Corrigan Context triple: [Fairchild Semiconductor, notableEmployee, Wilfred Corrigan]
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A.
Bill Dinneen
Bill Dinneen was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher and later umpire, best known for his standout performances in the first modern World Series and his long career in the American League.
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B.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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C.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
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D.
Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Jackson was an American animator and film director best known for his pioneering work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated features and shorts.
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E.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
- 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: Wilfred Corrigan Target entity description: Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor industry executive best known for leading LSI Logic and playing a key role in the development of the fabless semiconductor business model.
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A.
Bill Dinneen
Bill Dinneen was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher and later umpire, best known for his standout performances in the first modern World Series and his long career in the American League.
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B.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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C.
Pat Moran
Pat Moran was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and former catcher best known for leading teams like the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, including guiding the Reds to a controversial 1919 World Series championship.
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D.
Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Jackson was an American animator and film director best known for his pioneering work on numerous classic Walt Disney animated features and shorts.
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E.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ semiconductor industry executive ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Robert N. Noyce Award
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surface form:
IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal
|
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | obituaries in semiconductor industry publications ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
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surface form:
Harvard Business School executive program
University College Dublin ⓘ |
| employer | LSI Logic ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business management
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integrated circuits ⓘ semiconductor technology ⓘ |
| founded | LSI Logic ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
Fairchild Semiconductor
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Motorola ⓘ |
| industry | semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| influenced |
growth of fabless semiconductor companies
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structure of modern semiconductor supply chains ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to the semiconductor industry
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leading LSI Logic ⓘ pioneering the fabless semiconductor business model ⓘ |
| memberOf | board of directors of various technology companies ⓘ |
| notableIdea | fabless semiconductor manufacturing model ⓘ |
| notableStudent | many executives in the semiconductor industry mentored by him ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of fabless semiconductor business model at LSI Logic ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
semiconductor executive ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| positionHeld |
chairman of LSI Logic
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chief executive officer of LSI Logic ⓘ co-founder of LSI Logic ⓘ executive at Fairchild Semiconductor ⓘ executive at Motorola ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| spouse | Mary Corrigan ⓘ |
| workLocation | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Wilfred Corrigan Description of subject: Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor industry executive best known for leading LSI Logic and playing a key role in the development of the fabless semiconductor business model.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.