Marilyn Amdahl
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Marilyn Amdahl is best known as the wife of pioneering computer architect Gene Amdahl, a key figure in the development of mainframe computing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marilyn Amdahl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1961151 — 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: Marilyn Amdahl Context triple: [Gene Amdahl, spouse, Marilyn Amdahl]
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A.
Gene Amdahl
Gene Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work on mainframe computers and for formulating Amdahl's Law in parallel computing.
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B.
Fernando J. Corbató
Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
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C.
Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist renowned for her pioneering work in VLSI chip design and contributions to modern microprocessor architecture.
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D.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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E.
J. Presper Eckert
J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
- 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: Marilyn Amdahl Target entity description: Marilyn Amdahl is best known as the wife of pioneering computer architect Gene Amdahl, a key figure in the development of mainframe computing.
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A.
Gene Amdahl
Gene Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work on mainframe computers and for formulating Amdahl's Law in parallel computing.
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B.
Fernando J. Corbató
Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
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C.
Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist renowned for her pioneering work in VLSI chip design and contributions to modern microprocessor architecture.
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D.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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E.
J. Presper Eckert
J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Amdahl ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of computer architect Gene Amdahl ⓘ |
| spouse | Gene Amdahl ⓘ |
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: Marilyn Amdahl Description of subject: Marilyn Amdahl is best known as the wife of pioneering computer architect Gene Amdahl, a key figure in the development of mainframe computing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.