Stuart Feldman
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Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Unix `make` build automation tool and for his influential work in software engineering and research leadership.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stuart Feldman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8021464 — 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: Stuart Feldman Context triple: [IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, employer, Stuart Feldman]
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A.
Phillip Feldman
Phillip Feldman is a film producer best known for his work on the 1983 action thriller "Blue Thunder."
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B.
Stuart Blumberg
Stuart Blumberg is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on character-driven independent films, including the acclaimed drama "The Kids Are All Right."
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C.
Stuart Ostrow
Stuart Ostrow is an American theatrical producer and director best known for developing and producing influential Broadway musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Stuart Bondek
Stuart Bondek is a politically incorrect, womanizing deputy mayor known for his outrageous behavior and dark humor on the sitcom "Spin City."
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E.
Stuart Cornfeld
Stuart Cornfeld was an American film producer and longtime Ben Stiller collaborator known for producing hit comedies such as Tropic Thunder and Zoolander.
- 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: Stuart Feldman Target entity description: Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Unix `make` build automation tool and for his influential work in software engineering and research leadership.
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A.
Phillip Feldman
Phillip Feldman is a film producer best known for his work on the 1983 action thriller "Blue Thunder."
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B.
Stuart Blumberg
Stuart Blumberg is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on character-driven independent films, including the acclaimed drama "The Kids Are All Right."
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C.
Stuart Ostrow
Stuart Ostrow is an American theatrical producer and director best known for developing and producing influential Broadway musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Stuart Bondek
Stuart Bondek is a politically incorrect, womanizing deputy mayor known for his outrageous behavior and dark humor on the sitcom "Spin City."
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E.
Stuart Cornfeld
Stuart Cornfeld was an American film producer and longtime Ben Stiller collaborator known for producing hit comedies such as Tropic Thunder and Zoolander.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ |
| almaMater | Princeton University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
research management
ⓘ
software engineering methodology ⓘ software tools ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Fellow
NERFINISHED
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ACM Software System Award NERFINISHED ⓘ IEEE Fellow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| contributedTo | Unix operating system ecosystem ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in applied mathematics ⓘ |
| education | Princeton University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
AT&T
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bell Labs NERFINISHED ⓘ Bellcore NERFINISHED ⓘ Google ⓘ IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ Schmidt Futures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field | computer science ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Unix make build automation tool
ⓘ
research leadership ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
ACM
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IEEE NERFINISHED ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableProject | Unix build system ⓘ |
| notableWork | make ⓘ |
| position |
Chief Scientist at Schmidt Futures
ⓘ
Vice President of Computer Science at IBM Research ⓘ Vice President of Engineering at Google ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Fortran 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: Stuart Feldman Description of subject: Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist best known for creating the Unix `make` build automation tool and for his influential work in software engineering and research leadership.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.