Per Bothner
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Per Bothner is a software developer and computer scientist best known for creating the Kawa Scheme implementation for the Java platform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Per Bothner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6672552 — 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: Per Bothner Context triple: [Kawa, author, Per Bothner]
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A.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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B.
Kurt Johnstad
Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action films "300" and "Atomic Blonde."
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C.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Scott Sundquist
Scott Sundquist is an American drummer best known for being an early member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden before their rise to mainstream fame.
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E.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
- 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: Per Bothner Target entity description: Per Bothner is a software developer and computer scientist best known for creating the Kawa Scheme implementation for the Java platform.
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A.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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B.
Kurt Johnstad
Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action films "300" and "Atomic Blonde."
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C.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Scott Sundquist
Scott Sundquist is an American drummer best known for being an early member of the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden before their rise to mainstream fame.
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E.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scheme implementation
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| affiliation | GNU Project ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Scheme programming language
ⓘ
linked to:
Scheme
|
| contributedTo |
GNU project
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Project
|
| creator | Per Bothner ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Java virtual machine
ⓘ
linked to:
Java Virtual Machine
|
| developerOf | Kawa Scheme ⓘ |
| employer |
Cygnus Solutions
ⓘ
Google ⓘ Red Hat ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
programming languages ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
GNU software
ⓘ
Java platform ⓘ
linked to:
Java Platform, Standard Edition
Scheme programming language ⓘ
linked to:
Scheme
compilers ⓘ functional programming ⓘ interpreters ⓘ language implementation ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalksOn |
Kawa Scheme
ⓘ
Scheme programming language ⓘ programming language implementation ⓘ |
| hasMaintained | Kawa Scheme ⓘ |
| hasSpokenAt |
FOSDEM
ⓘ
various open source conferences ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
technical articles on Java
ⓘ
technical articles on Scheme ⓘ technical articles on compilers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Kawa Scheme
ⓘ
Kawa programming language implementation for the Java platform ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableWork | Kawa: Compiling Scheme to Java ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ Emacs Lisp ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
Java ⓘ Scheme ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageDeveloped | Kawa Scheme ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Java platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Java Platform, Standard Edition
|
| website | https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ ⓘ |
| workedOn |
GCC
ⓘ
GDB ⓘ libgcj ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Compiler Collection
|
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: Per Bothner Description of subject: Per Bothner is a software developer and computer scientist best known for creating the Kawa Scheme implementation for the Java platform.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.