Forest Baskett
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Forest Baskett is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist known for his influential work in computer architecture and his role as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Forest Baskett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7665028 — 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: Forest Baskett Context triple: [John Vlissides, doctoralAdvisor, Forest Baskett]
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A.
Roy Hurley
Roy Hurley was an American professional basketball player who competed in the Basketball Association of America during the 1940s.
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B.
Newt Heisley
Newt Heisley was an American graphic designer and World War II veteran best known for creating the iconic POW/MIA flag honoring U.S. prisoners of war and those missing in action.
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C.
Paul Silas
Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
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D.
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
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E.
Alvin Robertson
Alvin Robertson is a former NBA guard renowned for his elite perimeter defense, multiple All-Star selections, and status as one of the league’s most prolific steal artists.
- 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: Forest Baskett Target entity description: Forest Baskett is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist known for his influential work in computer architecture and his role as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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A.
Roy Hurley
Roy Hurley was an American professional basketball player who competed in the Basketball Association of America during the 1940s.
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B.
Newt Heisley
Newt Heisley was an American graphic designer and World War II veteran best known for creating the iconic POW/MIA flag honoring U.S. prisoners of war and those missing in action.
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C.
Paul Silas
Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
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D.
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Hayes is a Hall of Fame American basketball player renowned as one of the NBA’s dominant power forwards of the 1970s, particularly for his scoring, rebounding, and key role in leading the Washington Bullets to the 1978 championship.
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E.
Alvin Robertson
Alvin Robertson is a former NBA guard renowned for his elite perimeter defense, multiple All-Star selections, and status as one of the league’s most prolific steal artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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venture capitalist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various technology companies funded by NEA ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Rice University
NERFINISHED
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University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| employer |
New Enterprise Associates
NERFINISHED
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) NERFINISHED ⓘ Silicon Graphics NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ Xerox PARC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer architecture
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computer science ⓘ high‑performance computing ⓘ |
| genre | high‑performance computing ⓘ |
| memberOf | New Enterprise Associates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential work in computer architecture
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role in venture capital investing in technology companies ⓘ |
| notableWork | work on computer architecture ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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university professor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | general partner at New Enterprise Associates ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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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: Forest Baskett Description of subject: Forest Baskett is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist known for his influential work in computer architecture and his role as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.