Howard Gobioff
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Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Gobioff canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7985999 — 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: Howard Gobioff Context triple: [Google File System, paperAuthors, Howard Gobioff]
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A.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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B.
Howard Rosenman
Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
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C.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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D.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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E.
Glenn Fleshler
Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
- 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: Howard Gobioff Target entity description: Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
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A.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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B.
Howard Rosenman
Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
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C.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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D.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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E.
Glenn Fleshler
Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google employee
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computer scientist ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| almaMater | Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Google
NERFINISHED
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Google File System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | The Google File System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | design of the Google File System ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Google ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | computer science ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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distributed file systems ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Hector Garcia-Molina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Howard Gobioff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublication | The Google File System (ACM SOSP 2003) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
early Google engineer
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researcher ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| influenced | modern distributed storage systems ⓘ |
| inspired | subsequent large-scale distributed file systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring the Google File System paper
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work on distributed storage systems ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Google File System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Howard Gobioff Description of subject: Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.