Jeff Kodosky
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Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Kodosky canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6525357 — 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: Jeff Kodosky Context triple: [National Instruments, foundedBy, Jeff Kodosky]
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A.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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B.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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C.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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E.
Ben D. Waisbren
Ben D. Waisbren is a film producer known for financing and producing major studio and independent movies.
- 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: Jeff Kodosky Target entity description: Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
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A.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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B.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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C.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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E.
Ben D. Waisbren
Ben D. Waisbren is a film producer known for financing and producing major studio and independent movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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company founder ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award
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Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame induction ⓘ W. Wallace McDowell Award ⓘ
linked to:
W. W. McDowell Award
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| coFounded | National Instruments ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ⓘ |
| employer | National Instruments ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
graphical programming
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test and measurement automation ⓘ virtual instrumentation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | bachelor's degree in physics ⓘ |
| industry |
engineering software
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test and measurement ⓘ |
| knownAs | father of LabVIEW ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped popularize virtual instrumentation
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pioneered graphical programming for engineers and scientists ⓘ |
| notableRole | architect of LabVIEW ⓘ |
| notableWork |
LabVIEW
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graphical programming environment for test and measurement ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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engineer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Austin, Texas
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linked to:
City of Austin
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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: Jeff Kodosky Description of subject: Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.