Tom Davis
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Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986356 — 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: Tom Davis Context triple: [SGI, foundedBy, Tom Davis]
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A.
Mike Salisbury
Mike Salisbury is a British television producer best known for his work on major natural history documentaries, including serving as an executive producer on David Attenborough’s acclaimed series "The Life of Birds."
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B.
Harry Bright
Harry Bright is one of the three possible fathers and central adult characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his reserved, uptight demeanor that contrasts with the story’s exuberant Greek-island setting.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly is a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Northern Virginia known for his work on government oversight, federal workforce issues, and foreign affairs.
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E.
Jim Wright
Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
- 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: Tom Davis Target entity description: Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
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A.
Mike Salisbury
Mike Salisbury is a British television producer best known for his work on major natural history documentaries, including serving as an executive producer on David Attenborough’s acclaimed series "The Life of Birds."
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B.
Harry Bright
Harry Bright is one of the three possible fathers and central adult characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his reserved, uptight demeanor that contrasts with the story’s exuberant Greek-island setting.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly is a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Northern Virginia known for his work on government oversight, federal workforce issues, and foreign affairs.
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E.
Jim Wright
Jim Wright was an American Democratic politician from Texas who served as a powerful congressional leader and later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
SGI
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surface form:
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
|
| basedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
SGI
ⓘ
surface form:
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
|
| fieldOfStudy | mathematics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
3D graphics
ⓘ
computer graphics ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
mathematics education outreach
ⓘ
software development ⓘ technical writing ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.geometer.org ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
mathematics expository articles
ⓘ
puzzle and problem-solving essays ⓘ |
| industry |
computer graphics
ⓘ
high-performance computing ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Silicon Graphics, Inc. ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | founding team of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to computer graphics industry
ⓘ
high-performance 3D graphics workstations ⓘ popularization of mathematical problem solving ⓘ visualization and graphics supercomputers ⓘ work at a pioneering 3D graphics company ⓘ |
| notableWork | early development of SGI graphics systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ⓘ |
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: Tom Davis Description of subject: Tom Davis is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a pioneering company in high-performance 3D graphics and computing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.