Paul Ginsparg
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Paul Ginsparg is an American physicist and computer scientist best known for creating the arXiv preprint repository, which transformed the dissemination of research in physics and other fields.
All labels observed (1)
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| Paul Ginsparg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424784 — 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: Paul Ginsparg Context triple: [arXiv, foundedBy, Paul Ginsparg]
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C. R. Hagen
C. R. Hagen is a theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and gauge theories, including work related to the Higgs mechanism.
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Dan Appelquist
Dan Appelquist is a web standards and open web advocate known for his leadership in internet architecture and governance, including chairing key World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) groups.
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C.
John H. Schwarz
John H. Schwarz is an American theoretical physicist best known as one of the founders of superstring theory and a pioneer in the development of string theory as a candidate for a unified theory of fundamental forces.
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D.
H. David Politzer
H. David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his role in the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
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E.
Sidney Coleman
Sidney Coleman was an influential American theoretical physicist renowned for his work in quantum field theory and for his exceptional teaching and expository lectures at Harvard 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: Paul Ginsparg Target entity description: Paul Ginsparg is an American physicist and computer scientist best known for creating the arXiv preprint repository, which transformed the dissemination of research in physics and other fields.
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A.
C. R. Hagen
C. R. Hagen is a theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and gauge theories, including work related to the Higgs mechanism.
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B.
Dan Appelquist
Dan Appelquist is a web standards and open web advocate known for his leadership in internet architecture and governance, including chairing key World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) groups.
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C.
John H. Schwarz
John H. Schwarz is an American theoretical physicist best known as one of the founders of superstring theory and a pioneer in the development of string theory as a candidate for a unified theory of fundamental forces.
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D.
H. David Politzer
H. David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his role in the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.
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E.
Sidney Coleman
Sidney Coleman was an influential American theoretical physicist renowned for his work in quantum field theory and for his exceptional teaching and expository lectures at Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicAffiliation | Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Council of Science Editors Award for Meritorious Achievement
NERFINISHED
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MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Evans Peters Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| contributedTo | open access movement ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-01-01 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Kenneth G. Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Cornell University
NERFINISHED
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Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ginsparg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | physics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
high-energy physics
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information science ⓘ scholarly publishing ⓘ scientific communication ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| founded | arXiv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://arxiv.org ⓘ |
| inceptionOfArXiv | 1991 ⓘ |
| influenced |
preprint culture in multiple scientific disciplines
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scholarly communication in physics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing the arXiv preprint repository
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founding arXiv ⓘ promoting open access to scientific literature ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Physical Society ⓘ |
| name | Paul Ginsparg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | arXiv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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physicist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Los Alamos National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Information Science at Cornell University
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Professor of Physics at Cornell University ⓘ |
| residence | Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Ginsparg Description of subject: Paul Ginsparg is an American physicist and computer scientist best known for creating the arXiv preprint repository, which transformed the dissemination of research in physics and other fields.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.