Mike Burrows
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Mike Burrows is a computer scientist best known for his influential work at Google on large-scale distributed systems, including co-authoring the Bigtable storage system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Burrows canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7932424 — 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: Mike Burrows Context triple: [Bigtable, paperAuthorsInclude, Mike Burrows]
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A.
David Burrows
David Burrows is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including The Lego Movie.
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B.
Mitch Rouse
Mitch Rouse is an American actor, comedian, and writer known for his work in film and television, including co-creating the series "Strangers with Candy" and appearing in numerous comedic roles.
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C.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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D.
Mike Dailey
Mike Dailey is an American arena football coach best known for leading the Albany Firebirds and later the Colorado Crush to success in the Arena Football League.
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E.
Mike Fellows
Mike Fellows is an American musician best known as a bassist and multi-instrumentalist associated with influential indie and experimental bands, including his work with Silver Jews.
- 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: Mike Burrows Target entity description: Mike Burrows is a computer scientist best known for his influential work at Google on large-scale distributed systems, including co-authoring the Bigtable storage system.
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A.
David Burrows
David Burrows is a film editor best known for his work on major animated features, including The Lego Movie.
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B.
Mitch Rouse
Mitch Rouse is an American actor, comedian, and writer known for his work in film and television, including co-creating the series "Strangers with Candy" and appearing in numerous comedic roles.
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C.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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D.
Mike Dailey
Mike Dailey is an American arena football coach best known for leading the Albany Firebirds and later the Colorado Crush to success in the Arena Football League.
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E.
Mike Fellows
Mike Fellows is an American musician best known as a bassist and multi-instrumentalist associated with influential indie and experimental bands, including his work with Silver Jews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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distributed storage system ⓘ scientific paper ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| affiliation | Google ⓘ |
| author |
Fay Chang
ⓘ
James L. Wiener ⓘ Jeffrey Dean ⓘ Mike Burrows ⓘ Sanjay Ghemawat ⓘ Shun-Tak Leung ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf |
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
ⓘ
linked to:
Bigtable
|
| contributedTo | Google infrastructure ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| designer |
Fay Chang
ⓘ
Jeffrey Dean ⓘ Mike Burrows ⓘ Sanjay Ghemawat ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| employer | Google ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
distributed systems ⓘ storage systems ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
ⓘ
linked to:
Bigtable
|
| influenced |
NoSQL databases
ⓘ
distributed key-value stores ⓘ |
| inspired |
Apache HBase
ⓘ
Cassandra ⓘ Hypertable ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring Bigtable
ⓘ
work at Google ⓘ work on large-scale distributed systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bigtable ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publishedIn |
OSDI 2006
ⓘ
linked to:
OSDI
|
| thesisAdvisor | Roger Needham ⓘ |
| workedOn |
fault-tolerant distributed systems
ⓘ
systems for large-scale data storage ⓘ |
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: Mike Burrows Description of subject: Mike Burrows is a computer scientist best known for his influential work at Google on large-scale distributed systems, including co-authoring the Bigtable storage system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.