Bob McGrew
E441115
Bob McGrew is a computer scientist and researcher known for co-authoring the Hindsight Experience Replay technique in reinforcement learning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob McGrew canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4470528 — 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: Bob McGrew Context triple: [Hindsight Experience Replay, proposedBy, Bob McGrew]
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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.
Don Beyer
Don Beyer is an American Democratic politician and former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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C.
Thomas Foley
Thomas Foley was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who played a key role under Admiral Nelson during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Tom Davis
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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E.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
- 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: Bob McGrew Target entity description: Bob McGrew is a computer scientist and researcher known for co-authoring the Hindsight Experience Replay technique in reinforcement learning.
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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.
Don Beyer
Don Beyer is an American Democratic politician and former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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C.
Thomas Foley
Thomas Foley was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who played a key role under Admiral Nelson during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Tom Davis
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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E.
Tom Davis
Tom Davis was an American comedy writer and performer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for co-creating the recurring "Coneheads" characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Hindsight Experience Replay ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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computer science ⓘ machine learning ⓘ reinforcement learning ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-authoring the Hindsight Experience Replay technique in reinforcement learning ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hindsight Experience Replay ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
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: Bob McGrew Description of subject: Bob McGrew is a computer scientist and researcher known for co-authoring the Hindsight Experience Replay technique in reinforcement learning.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.