Eric Raymond

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American person author essayist human open-source advocate software developer

Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Eric S. Raymond	24
Eric Raymond canonical	2
Eric Steven Raymond	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20325 — 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: Eric Raymond
Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Eric Raymond]

A. Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
B. John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
C. Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
D. Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
E. Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
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: Eric Raymond
Target entity description: Eric Raymond is an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author best known for his influential essay collection "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which helped popularize and legitimize the open-source software movement.

A. Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
B. John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
C. Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
D. Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
E. Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American person ⓘ author ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ open-source advocate ⓘ software developer ⓘ
advocated	collaborative software development ⓘ use of open-source licenses ⓘ
authored	Homesteading the Noosphere ⓘ How To Become A Hacker ⓘ Magic Cauldron ⓘ Revenge of the Hackers ⓘ The Art of Unix Programming ⓘ The Cathedral and the Bazaar ⓘ The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ surface form: The Jargon File The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ
birthDate	1957-12-04 ⓘ
birthPlace	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
edited	The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ surface form: The Jargon File The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ
familyName	Raymond ⓘ
field	computer programming ⓘ open-source software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ
fullName	Eric Raymond self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Eric Steven Raymond
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Eric ⓘ
influenced	open-source movement ⓘ software business models for open source ⓘ
knownFor	The Cathedral and the Bazaar ⓘ advocacy of open-source software ⓘ editing The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
movement	hacker culture ⓘ open-source software movement ⓘ
nationality	United States of America ⓘ
notableWork	The Art of Unix Programming ⓘ The Cathedral and the Bazaar ⓘ The New Hacker's Dictionary ⓘ
occupation	open-source strategist ⓘ software developer ⓘ writer ⓘ
softwareDeveloped	fetchmail ⓘ
wroteAbout	bazaar model of software development ⓘ cathedral model of software development ⓘ hacker culture and ethics ⓘ

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Referenced by (28)

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

Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award → hasNotableRecipient → Eric Raymond ⓘ

Eric Raymond → fullName → Eric Raymond self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eric Steven Raymond

The Cathedral and the Bazaar → author → Eric Raymond ⓘ