Bradley Parkinson
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Bradley Parkinson is an American engineer and professor best known as the chief architect and program manager of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bradley Parkinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5961193 — 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: Bradley Parkinson Context triple: [Marconi Society, hasNotableAwardRecipient, Bradley Parkinson]
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A.
Jeremy Miles
Jeremy Miles is a Welsh Labour politician and lawyer who has served in senior roles within the Welsh Government, including as a key legal and constitutional adviser.
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B.
David Bradley
David Bradley is an English actor best known for roles such as Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films and Walder Frey in Game of Thrones.
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C.
Bradley Carnell
Bradley Carnell is a South African former professional defender and current soccer coach known for leading Major League Soccer expansion club St. Louis City SC.
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D.
Michael Pugh
Michael Pugh is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
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E.
Richard Holland
Richard Holland is an American music producer and former husband of renowned singer Chaka Khan.
- 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: Bradley Parkinson Target entity description: Bradley Parkinson is an American engineer and professor best known as the chief architect and program manager of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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A.
Jeremy Miles
Jeremy Miles is a Welsh Labour politician and lawyer who has served in senior roles within the Welsh Government, including as a key legal and constitutional adviser.
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B.
David Bradley
David Bradley is an English actor best known for roles such as Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films and Walder Frey in Game of Thrones.
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C.
Bradley Carnell
Bradley Carnell is a South African former professional defender and current soccer coach known for leading Major League Soccer expansion club St. Louis City SC.
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D.
Michael Pugh
Michael Pugh is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
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E.
Richard Holland
Richard Holland is an American music producer and former husband of renowned singer Chaka Khan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Charles Stark Draper Prize
NERFINISHED
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IEEE Medal of Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ National Academy of Engineering membership NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stanford University ⓘ United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
Stanford University
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parkinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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control systems ⓘ navigation systems ⓘ satellite navigation ⓘ |
| givenName | Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
chief architect of GPS
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program manager of GPS ⓘ |
| knownFor |
chief architect of the Global Positioning System
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program manager of the Global Positioning System ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
advanced integration of GPS for civilian and military use
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contributed to design of GPS satellite constellation ⓘ led development of space-based global navigation system ⓘ |
| notableWork | Global Positioning System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
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: Bradley Parkinson Description of subject: Bradley Parkinson is an American engineer and professor best known as the chief architect and program manager of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.