Panasonic Professor of Robotics
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The Panasonic Professor of Robotics is an endowed academic chair in robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held by roboticist Rodney Brooks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Panasonic Professor of Robotics canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2265106 — 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: Panasonic Professor of Robotics Context triple: [Rodney Brooks, position, Panasonic Professor of Robotics]
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A.
National Robotics Engineering Center
The National Robotics Engineering Center is a leading research and development facility at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in advanced robotics and autonomous systems for real-world applications.
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B.
ASIMO humanoid robot
ASIMO is a pioneering humanoid robot developed by Honda, designed to walk, run, and interact with humans as a research platform for advanced robotics and mobility technologies.
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C.
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus is an endowed emeritus professorship in engineering at Stanford University held by distinguished scholar Thomas Kailath.
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D.
Robotics Society of Japan
The Robotics Society of Japan is a professional organization that promotes research, development, and collaboration in robotics and intelligent systems within Japan and internationally.
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E.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- 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: Panasonic Professor of Robotics Target entity description: The Panasonic Professor of Robotics is an endowed academic chair in robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held by roboticist Rodney Brooks.
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A.
National Robotics Engineering Center
The National Robotics Engineering Center is a leading research and development facility at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in advanced robotics and autonomous systems for real-world applications.
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B.
ASIMO humanoid robot
ASIMO is a pioneering humanoid robot developed by Honda, designed to walk, run, and interact with humans as a research platform for advanced robotics and mobility technologies.
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C.
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus is an endowed emeritus professorship in engineering at Stanford University held by distinguished scholar Thomas Kailath.
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D.
Robotics Society of Japan
The Robotics Society of Japan is a professional organization that promotes research, development, and collaboration in robotics and intelligent systems within Japan and internationally.
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E.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic position
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endowed chair ⓘ roboticist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
artificial intelligence
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computer science ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| affiliation |
MIT School of Engineering
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surface form:
School of Engineering at MIT
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| chairHolder | Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employerInstitution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
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robotics ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| heldBy | Rodney Brooks ⓘ |
| holdsPosition | Panasonic Professor of Robotics self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Panasonic
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surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
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| sponsor | Panasonic ⓘ |
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: Panasonic Professor of Robotics Description of subject: The Panasonic Professor of Robotics is an endowed academic chair in robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held by roboticist Rodney Brooks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Panasonic Professor of Robotics
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holdsPosition
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Panasonic Professor of Robotics
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Rodney Brooks