Nathan Myhrvold
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Nathan Myhrvold is an American technologist, former Microsoft chief technology officer, and entrepreneur known for his work in software, invention, and scientific research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathan Myhrvold canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5383533 — 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: Nathan Myhrvold Context triple: [The Road Ahead, coAuthor, Nathan Myhrvold]
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A.
Michael Gunton
Michael Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on major BBC natural history series such as Planet Earth II and Dynasties.
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B.
John Stankey
John Stankey is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of AT&T.
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C.
Dan Trachtenberg
Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker best known for directing the thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane" and the "Predator" prequel "Prey."
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D.
James Martin
James Martin was a British engineer and aircraft designer best known as the co-founder of Martin-Baker, a company renowned for its pioneering ejection seat technology.
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E.
John Bridgeland
John Bridgeland is an American public policy expert and former White House official known for leading domestic policy initiatives and later founding and directing prominent civic and social impact organizations.
- 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: Nathan Myhrvold Target entity description: Nathan Myhrvold is an American technologist, former Microsoft chief technology officer, and entrepreneur known for his work in software, invention, and scientific research.
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A.
Michael Gunton
Michael Gunton is a British television producer best known for his work on major BBC natural history series such as Planet Earth II and Dynasties.
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B.
John Stankey
John Stankey is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer of AT&T.
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C.
Dan Trachtenberg
Dan Trachtenberg is an American filmmaker best known for directing the thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane" and the "Predator" prequel "Prey."
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D.
James Martin
James Martin was a British engineer and aircraft designer best known as the co-founder of Martin-Baker, a company renowned for its pioneering ejection seat technology.
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E.
John Bridgeland
John Bridgeland is an American public policy expert and former White House official known for leading domestic policy initiatives and later founding and directing prominent civic and social impact organizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cookbook writer
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ paleontologist ⓘ photographer ⓘ physicist ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
NERFINISHED
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Stephen Hawking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Institute of Technology
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Princeton University ⓘ University of California, Santa Cruz NERFINISHED ⓘ École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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computer science ⓘ culinary science ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ paleontology ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| founded |
Intellectual Ventures
NERFINISHED
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Modernist Cuisine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
cookbook
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
author
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photographer ⓘ restaurateur ⓘ scientist ⓘ technology executive ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Intellectual Ventures
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high-speed food photography ⓘ large patent portfolio at Intellectual Ventures ⓘ role as Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft ⓘ work on modernist cooking ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Association for the Advancement of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Modernist Bread
NERFINISHED
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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking NERFINISHED ⓘ Modernist Pizza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Stephen Hawking 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: Nathan Myhrvold Description of subject: Nathan Myhrvold is an American technologist, former Microsoft chief technology officer, and entrepreneur known for his work in software, invention, and scientific research.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.