Miguel de Icaza

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free software advocate human software developer

Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican software developer best known for co-founding the GNOME desktop project and leading the Mono open-source .NET implementation.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Miguel de Icaza canonical	4
Luis de Icaza	1
de Icaza	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T400576 — 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: Miguel de Icaza
Context triple: [Award for the Advancement of Free Software, notableRecipient, Miguel de Icaza]

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.
B. Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films such as "Gladiator," "The Hunt for Red October," and "The Dark Knight Rises."
C. Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
D. Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova was a Catalan lawyer and politician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance for his leadership in the defense of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.
E. Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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: Miguel de Icaza
Target entity description: Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican software developer best known for co-founding the GNOME desktop project and leading the Mono open-source .NET implementation.

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.
B. Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films such as "Gladiator," "The Hunt for Red October," and "The Dark Knight Rises."
C. Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known as the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, the core of the widely used Linux operating system.
D. Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova was a Catalan lawyer and politician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance for his leadership in the defense of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.
E. Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	free software advocate ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ
associatedWith	Free Software Foundation ⓘ GNOME Foundation ⓘ .NET ecosystem ⓘ surface form: Microsoft .NET ecosystem
awardReceived	Award for the Advancement of Free Software ⓘ surface form: Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software MIT Technology Review ⓘ surface form: MIT Technology Review TR100
coFounderOf	GNOME desktop environment ⓘ surface form: GNOME Xamarin ⓘ Ximian ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Mexico ⓘ
developed	Mono ⓘ Xamarin ⓘ surface form: Mono for Android Xamarin ⓘ surface form: MonoTouch
employer	Microsoft ⓘ Novell ⓘ Xamarin ⓘ Ximian ⓘ
familyName	Miguel de Icaza self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: de Icaza
fieldOfWork	.NET technologies ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ
founded	Mono project ⓘ
givenName	Miguel ⓘ
hasOnlinePresence	GitHub account ⓘ personal blog ⓘ
influenced	Linux desktop adoption ⓘ cross-platform .NET development ⓘ
knownFor	co-founding the GNOME desktop project ⓘ leading the Mono project ⓘ work on open-source .NET implementation ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
name	Miguel de Icaza self-link ⓘ
nationality	Mexican ⓘ
notableAchievement	helped create a major free desktop environment for Unix-like systems ⓘ pioneered cross-platform .NET on Linux and other systems ⓘ
notableFor	promoting open-source development tools for mobile platforms ⓘ
notableWork	GNOME desktop environment ⓘ Mono .NET implementation ⓘ Xamarin ⓘ surface form: Xamarin mobile development platform
occupation	programmer ⓘ software architect ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ
residence	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
role	leader of the Mono project ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Award for the Advancement of Free Software → notableRecipient → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Miguel de Icaza → name → Miguel de Icaza self-link ⓘ

Miguel de Icaza → familyName → Miguel de Icaza self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: de Icaza

Ximian → foundedBy → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Ximian → notableEmployee → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

Sólo con tu pareja → hasCastMember → Miguel de Icaza ⓘ

this entity surface form: Luis de Icaza

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Referenced by (6)

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