Margo Seltzer
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Margo Seltzer is a prominent American computer scientist known for her influential work in file systems, databases, and performance analysis, and for her leadership in both academia and industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margo Seltzer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7074048 — 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: Margo Seltzer Context triple: [USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Margo Seltzer]
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A.
Jennifer Widom
Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering research in database systems and data management, and for her leadership as dean of the Stanford School of Engineering.
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B.
Barbara Grosz
Barbara Grosz is a pioneering computer scientist known for her foundational work in natural language processing, multi-agent systems, and contributions to the field of artificial intelligence research and ethics.
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C.
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a prominent technology investor, journalist, and philanthropist known for her early involvement in the digital economy and advocacy on issues such as health, space, and technology policy.
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D.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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E.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
- 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: Margo Seltzer Target entity description: Margo Seltzer is a prominent American computer scientist known for her influential work in file systems, databases, and performance analysis, and for her leadership in both academia and industry.
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A.
Jennifer Widom
Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering research in database systems and data management, and for her leadership as dean of the Stanford School of Engineering.
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B.
Barbara Grosz
Barbara Grosz is a pioneering computer scientist known for her foundational work in natural language processing, multi-agent systems, and contributions to the field of artificial intelligence research and ethics.
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C.
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a prominent technology investor, journalist, and philanthropist known for her early involvement in the digital economy and advocacy on issues such as health, space, and technology policy.
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D.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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E.
Andrew G. Myers
Andrew G. Myers is an American organic chemist renowned for his contributions to complex molecule synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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computer scientist ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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UBC Department of Computer Science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Fellow
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ACM Software System Award ⓘ IEEE Fellow ⓘ USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
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Oracle Corporation ⓘ Sleepycat Software ⓘ University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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data management ⓘ databases ⓘ file systems ⓘ operating systems ⓘ performance analysis ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Michael Stonebraker ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Berkeley DB
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work on databases ⓘ work on file systems ⓘ work on performance analysis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ US National Academy of Engineering ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Engineering
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| notableStudent | Eddie Kohler ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Berkeley DB key-value store
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linked to:
Berkeley DB
log-structured file systems research ⓘ performance measurement and analysis tools ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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researcher ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CTO of Sleepycat Software
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems ⓘ director of the UBC Computer Systems Lab ⓘ member of technical staff at Oracle ⓘ professor of computer science ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
data provenance
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distributed systems ⓘ file system design ⓘ storage systems ⓘ |
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: Margo Seltzer Description of subject: Margo Seltzer is a prominent American computer scientist known for her influential work in file systems, databases, and performance analysis, and for her leadership in both academia and industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.