Shmuel Winograd
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Shmuel Winograd was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity and fast algorithms, particularly in matrix multiplication.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shmuel Winograd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8021469 — 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: Shmuel Winograd Context triple: [IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, employer, Shmuel Winograd]
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A.
Moshe Rosenblum
Moshe Rosenblum is known primarily as the son of Herzl Rosenblum, a prominent Israeli journalist, politician, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Shimon Even
Shimon Even was an influential Israeli computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to graph algorithms and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Shmuel Shtrikman
Shmuel Shtrikman was an Israeli physicist renowned for his influential contributions to condensed matter physics and materials science.
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D.
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow was an influential American computer scientist and early artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on natural language understanding and AI programming systems.
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E.
Avner Friedman
Avner Friedman is an Israeli-American mathematician renowned for his influential work in partial differential equations and their applications to fields such as biology and finance.
- 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: Shmuel Winograd Target entity description: Shmuel Winograd was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity and fast algorithms, particularly in matrix multiplication.
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A.
Moshe Rosenblum
Moshe Rosenblum is known primarily as the son of Herzl Rosenblum, a prominent Israeli journalist, politician, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Shimon Even
Shimon Even was an influential Israeli computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to graph algorithms and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Shmuel Shtrikman
Shmuel Shtrikman was an Israeli physicist renowned for his influential contributions to condensed matter physics and materials science.
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D.
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow was an influential American computer scientist and early artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on natural language understanding and AI programming systems.
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E.
Avner Friedman
Avner Friedman is an Israeli-American mathematician renowned for his influential work in partial differential equations and their applications to fields such as biology and finance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| affiliation | IBM Research ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
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Knuth Prize ⓘ
linked to:
Donald E. Knuth Prize
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| coDeveloped | Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Don Coppersmith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer |
IBM
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IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algorithms
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computational complexity theory ⓘ computer science ⓘ fast matrix multiplication ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Saunders Mac Lane ⓘ |
| hasContribution |
design of fast algorithms for linear transformations
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lower bounds in algebraic complexity ⓘ theory of arithmetic circuits ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of fast linear algebra algorithms
ⓘ
research on matrix multiplication exponent ⓘ |
| knownFor | Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | IBM Academy of Technology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
algebraic complexity theory
ⓘ
contributions to computational complexity ⓘ influential work in computational complexity and fast algorithms ⓘ work on fast algorithms for matrix multiplication ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Volker Strassen ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arithmetic Complexity of Computations
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papers on fast matrix multiplication ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
Yorktown Heights, New York
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linked to:
Yorktown, New York
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| positionHeld | head of the computer science department at IBM Research ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
algebraic complexity of matrix multiplication
ⓘ
signal processing ⓘ |
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: Shmuel Winograd Description of subject: Shmuel Winograd was a prominent computer scientist known for his influential work in computational complexity and fast algorithms, particularly in matrix multiplication.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.