Mike Kershaw
E484047
computer programmer
network monitoring tool
software
software developer
wireless network detector
wireless sniffer
Mike Kershaw is a software developer best known for creating the wireless network detector and sniffer tool Kismet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Kershaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4980056 — 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: Mike Kershaw Context triple: [Kismet, originalAuthor, Mike Kershaw]
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A.
John Briscoe
John Briscoe was a renowned engineer and water resources expert recognized globally for his contributions to water management and policy.
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B.
Will Halloway
Will Halloway is a thoughtful and courageous young boy who confronts a sinister traveling carnival in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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C.
Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech is a former Australian professional boxer and three-division world champion widely regarded as one of his country’s greatest fighters.
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D.
Scott Shriner
Scott Shriner is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Weezer.
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E.
Luther Van Dam
Luther Van Dam is a bumbling yet lovable assistant football coach on the sitcom "Coach," known for his comedic antics and loyalty to head coach Hayden Fox.
- 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: Mike Kershaw Target entity description: Mike Kershaw is a software developer best known for creating the wireless network detector and sniffer tool Kismet.
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A.
John Briscoe
John Briscoe was a renowned engineer and water resources expert recognized globally for his contributions to water management and policy.
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B.
Will Halloway
Will Halloway is a thoughtful and courageous young boy who confronts a sinister traveling carnival in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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C.
Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech is a former Australian professional boxer and three-division world champion widely regarded as one of his country’s greatest fighters.
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D.
Scott Shriner
Scott Shriner is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the rock band Weezer.
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E.
Luther Van Dam
Luther Van Dam is a bumbling yet lovable assistant football coach on the sitcom "Coach," known for his comedic antics and loyalty to head coach Hayden Fox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer programmer
ⓘ
network monitoring tool ⓘ software ⓘ software developer ⓘ wireless network detector ⓘ wireless sniffer ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
open-source software
ⓘ
wireless security tools ⓘ |
| contributedTo | open-source security community ⓘ |
| creator | Mike Kershaw ⓘ |
| developed | Kismet ⓘ |
| field |
computer security
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network security ⓘ wireless networking ⓘ |
| genre | network security software ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating Kismet ⓘ |
| license | open-source software license ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableWork | Kismet ⓘ |
| occupation | software developer ⓘ |
| operatesOn | wireless networks ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| supports |
802.11 wireless networks
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packet sniffing ⓘ wireless network detection ⓘ |
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: Mike Kershaw Description of subject: Mike Kershaw is a software developer best known for creating the wireless network detector and sniffer tool Kismet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mike Kershaw