José Valim
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José Valim is a Brazilian software engineer and creator of the Elixir programming language, known for his work on scalable, concurrent systems and contributions to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| José Valim canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4442571 — 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: José Valim Context triple: [Elixir, designedBy, José Valim]
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A.
Leonardo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist best known for creating the Z3 theorem prover and contributing significantly to automated reasoning and formal verification.
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B.
Daniel Rezende
Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor best known for his acclaimed work on internationally recognized films such as "City of God" and other major cinematic projects.
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C.
Paulo Campos
Paulo Campos is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the psychological thriller "The Devil All the Time."
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D.
Rodrigo Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known internationally for composing and performing the theme song "Tuyo" for the television series Narcos.
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E.
Erick M. Carreira
Erick M. Carreira is a prominent organic chemist known for his contributions to synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis, and for serving as editor-in-chief of the journal Angewandte Chemie.
- 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: José Valim Target entity description: José Valim is a Brazilian software engineer and creator of the Elixir programming language, known for his work on scalable, concurrent systems and contributions to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
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A.
Leonardo de Moura
Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist best known for creating the Z3 theorem prover and contributing significantly to automated reasoning and formal verification.
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B.
Daniel Rezende
Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor best known for his acclaimed work on internationally recognized films such as "City of God" and other major cinematic projects.
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C.
Paulo Campos
Paulo Campos is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the psychological thriller "The Devil All the Time."
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D.
Rodrigo Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known internationally for composing and performing the theme song "Tuyo" for the television series Narcos.
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E.
Erick M. Carreira
Erick M. Carreira is a prominent organic chemist known for his contributions to synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis, and for serving as editor-in-chief of the journal Angewandte Chemie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open source contributor
ⓘ
programming language designer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
BEAM ecosystem
ⓘ
Ruby on Rails ecosystem ⓘ
linked to:
Ruby on Rails
|
| birthPlace | Brazil ⓘ |
| citizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| coFounded | Dashbit ⓘ |
| communityRole | Elixir community leader ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Ruby on Rails ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Elixir programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Elixir
|
| designed |
Elixir programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Elixir
|
| employer | Dashbit ⓘ |
| familyName | Valim ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
concurrent computing
ⓘ
distributed systems ⓘ programming languages ⓘ software development ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
concurrency
ⓘ
distributed applications ⓘ fault-tolerant systems ⓘ scalability ⓘ |
| givenName | José ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Clojure
ⓘ
Erlang ⓘ Ruby ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Elixir programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Elixir
contributions to Ruby on Rails ⓘ work on concurrent systems ⓘ work on scalable systems ⓘ |
| maintains |
Elixir core
ⓘ
linked to:
Elixir Core Team
|
| name | José Valim ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Elixir programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Elixir
contributions to Ruby on Rails framework ⓘ |
| occupation |
CTO
ⓘ
programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technology Officer at Dashbit ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Elixir
ⓘ
Erlang ⓘ Ruby ⓘ |
| roleInProject | Ruby on Rails core team member ⓘ |
| speaksAt | software conferences ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Elixir
ⓘ
concurrent programming ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ |
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: José Valim Description of subject: José Valim is a Brazilian software engineer and creator of the Elixir programming language, known for his work on scalable, concurrent systems and contributions to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.