David Patterson
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David Patterson is a pioneering American computer scientist best known for his work on RISC architecture and RAID storage, which has profoundly influenced modern computer design.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Patterson canonical | 2 |
| David Andrew Patterson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7554279 — 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: David Patterson Context triple: [Computer Entrepreneur Award, hasRecipient, David Patterson]
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A.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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B.
Thomas Wight
Thomas Wight was an American architect best known as one of the founding partners of the architectural firm Wight and Wight.
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C.
Richard O. Covey
Richard O. Covey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and helped lead the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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D.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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E.
Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas F. Brady is an American investment banker and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury known for his role in developing the "Brady Plan" to address international debt crises.
- 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: David Patterson Target entity description: David Patterson is a pioneering American computer scientist best known for his work on RISC architecture and RAID storage, which has profoundly influenced modern computer design.
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A.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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B.
Thomas Wight
Thomas Wight was an American architect best known as one of the founding partners of the architectural firm Wight and Wight.
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C.
Richard O. Covey
Richard O. Covey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and helped lead the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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D.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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E.
Nicholas F. Brady
Nicholas F. Brady is an American investment banker and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury known for his role in developing the "Brady Plan" to address international debt crises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| author |
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
ⓘ
Computer Organization and Design ⓘ
linked to:
"Computer Organization and Design"
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| awardReceived |
ACM A.M. Turing Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Turing Award
ACM Distinguished Service Award ⓘ ACM Fellow ⓘ ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award ⓘ IEEE Fellow ⓘ IEEE John von Neumann Medal ⓘ National Academy of Engineering membership ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences membership ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
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| birthDate | 1947-11-16 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Everett, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| coAuthor | John L. Hennessy ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf |
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)
ⓘ
linked to:
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) ⓘ
linked to:
RISC architecture
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Patterson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer architecture
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computer science ⓘ electrical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| knownFor |
RAID
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RISC architecture ⓘ computer architecture textbooks ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name |
David Andrew Patterson
ⓘ
linked to:
David Patterson
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| notableProject |
Berkeley RISC project
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linked to:
Berkeley RISC projects
RAID research at UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Krste Asanović ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley
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director of the Parallel Computing Laboratory at UC Berkeley ⓘ professor of computer science at UC Berkeley ⓘ vice chair of the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
energy-efficient computing
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parallel computing ⓘ storage systems ⓘ |
| theoryOrConcept | RISC-V advocacy and promotion ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
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: David Patterson Description of subject: David Patterson is a pioneering American computer scientist best known for his work on RISC architecture and RAID storage, which has profoundly influenced modern computer design.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Patterson