Ken Ford
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Ken Ford is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his work in artificial intelligence and human-centered computing, particularly through his leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Ford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9296742 — 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: Ken Ford Context triple: [Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, hasFounder, Ken Ford]
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A.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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C.
Fred Ford
Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
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D.
Roy Roberts
Roy Roberts was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1940s through the 1970s, often portraying authority figures such as businessmen, military officers, and lawmen.
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E.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
- 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: Ken Ford Target entity description: Ken Ford is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his work in artificial intelligence and human-centered computing, particularly through his leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition.
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A.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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C.
Fred Ford
Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
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D.
Roy Roberts
Roy Roberts was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1940s through the 1970s, often portraying authority figures such as businessmen, military officers, and lawmen.
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E.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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computer scientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| affiliation | Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive science ⓘ human-centered computing ⓘ human–machine interaction ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
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research in artificial intelligence ⓘ research in human-centered computing ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | advancing human-centered approaches to AI ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Florida ⓘ |
| positionHeld | leader at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ⓘ |
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: Ken Ford Description of subject: Ken Ford is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his work in artificial intelligence and human-centered computing, particularly through his leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.