Håkon Wium Lie
E1900
Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer best known as the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a key figure in the development of open web standards.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Håkon Wium Lie canonical | 5 |
| Håkon | 1 |
| Håkon Wium Lie Lorentz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20337 — 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: Håkon Wium Lie Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Håkon Wium Lie]
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A.
Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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D.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- 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: Håkon Wium Lie Target entity description: Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer best known as the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a key figure in the development of open web standards.
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A.
Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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D.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norwegian person
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computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ web pioneer ⓘ |
| advocated |
open web standards
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standards-based web browsers ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Norway ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-07-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Halden ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Bert Bos ⓘ |
| coCreated |
CSS
ⓘ
surface form:
CSS1 specification
CSS ⓘ
surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
|
| collaboratedWith |
Bert Bos
ⓘ
Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
MIT Media Lab
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University of Oslo ⓘ Østfold University College ⓘ |
| employer | Opera Software ⓘ |
| familyName | Lie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cascading style sheets
ⓘ
web design ⓘ web standards ⓘ web technology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Håkon Wium Lie
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Håkon
|
| hasTwitterAccount | @wiumlie ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.wiumlie.no ⓘ |
| hasWritten | Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web ⓘ |
| knownFor |
CSS
ⓘ
CSS ⓘ
surface form:
Cascading Style Sheets
open web advocacy ⓘ web standards ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
W3C CSS Working Group
ⓘ
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| name | Håkon Wium Lie self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Norwegian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
CSS
ⓘ
surface form:
CSS specifications
Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web ⓘ |
| occupation |
Chief Technology Officer
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author ⓘ standards activist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | CTO of Opera Software ⓘ |
| residence | Oslo ⓘ |
| workedOn |
CSS
ⓘ
surface form:
CSS2 specification
CSS ⓘ
surface form:
CSS3 modules
|
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: Håkon Wium Lie Description of subject: Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer best known as the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a key figure in the development of open web standards.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Håkon
this entity surface form:
Håkon Wium Lie Lorentz