Ross Ihaka
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Ross Ihaka is a New Zealand statistician best known as one of the original creators of the R programming language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ross Ihaka canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4371791 — 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: Ross Ihaka Context triple: [R, developer, Ross Ihaka]
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A.
David Flanagan
David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
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B.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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C.
John Longley
John Longley is the son of Charles Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the 19th century.
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D.
Barton Myers
Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
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E.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
- 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: Ross Ihaka Target entity description: Ross Ihaka is a New Zealand statistician best known as one of the original creators of the R programming language.
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A.
David Flanagan
David Flanagan is a software developer and technical author best known for his widely used programming books, including "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide."
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B.
Robert Kern
Robert Kern was an American film editor active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on numerous prominent MGM productions.
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C.
John Longley
John Longley is the son of Charles Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the 19th century.
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D.
Barton Myers
Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
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E.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Ross Ihaka Description of subject: Ross Ihaka is a New Zealand statistician best known as one of the original creators of the R programming language.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.