Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Stallman canonical | 32 |
| President of the Free Software Foundation | 1 |
| Richard M. Stallman | 1 |
| Richard Matthew Stallman | 1 |
| Stallman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20312 — 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: Richard Stallman Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Richard Stallman]
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A.
Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
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B.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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C.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
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D.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
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E.
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
- 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: Richard Stallman Target entity description: Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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A.
Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
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B.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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C.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
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D.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
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E.
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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free software advocate ⓘ human ⓘ software freedom activist ⓘ |
| advocates | use of free software instead of proprietary software ⓘ |
| coined |
GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym)
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copyleft (in software licensing context) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-03-16 ⓘ |
| developed |
GNU Debugger
ⓘ
surface form:
GDB (GNU Debugger)
early versions of GCC ⓘ original GNU Emacs text editor ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Free Software Foundation ⓘ |
| familyName |
Richard Stallman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Stallman
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| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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software engineering ⓘ software freedom ⓘ |
| founded |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ |
| fullName |
Richard Stallman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Richard Matthew Stallman
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| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| ideology |
software should respect users' freedom
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users should have the four essential freedoms of free software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of free software
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formulating the concept of copyleft ⓘ founding the Free Software Foundation ⓘ initiating the GNU Project ⓘ writing the GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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surface form:
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (historical)
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| movement |
copyleft movement
ⓘ
free software movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Free Software, Free Society
ⓘ
GNU Compiler Collection ⓘ GNU Debugger ⓘ GNU Emacs ⓘ GNU General Public License ⓘ The GNU Manifesto ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
author ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
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surface form:
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
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| positionHeld |
Richard Stallman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
President of the Free Software Foundation
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| programmingLanguageCreated | Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ |
| website | https://www.stallman.org/ ⓘ |
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: Richard Stallman Description of subject: Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Matthew Stallman
this entity surface form:
Stallman
this entity surface form:
President of the Free Software Foundation
subject surface form:
GNU is Not Unix
this entity surface form:
Richard M. Stallman