David C. Plummer
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David C. Plummer is a computer scientist best known for authoring the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) specification and contributing to early Internet networking standards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David C. Plummer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866642 — 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: David C. Plummer Context triple: [RFC 826, author, David C. Plummer]
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A.
Joel J. Richard
Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Peter D. Martin
Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
George R. Vierno
George R. Vierno is a former New York City correction official best known for his leadership role within the city’s Department of Correction, for which a Rikers Island jail facility was named in his honor.
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E.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
- 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: David C. Plummer Target entity description: David C. Plummer is a computer scientist best known for authoring the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) specification and contributing to early Internet networking standards.
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A.
Joel J. Richard
Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Peter D. Martin
Peter D. Martin was an American writer, academic, and publisher best known as the co-founder of San Francisco’s influential City Lights Bookstore and its associated publishing house.
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
George R. Vierno
George R. Vierno is a former New York City correction official best known for his leadership role within the city’s Department of Correction, for which a Rikers Island jail facility was named in his honor.
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E.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Internet engineering
ⓘ
computer networking practice ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Address Resolution Protocol specification
ⓘ
linked to:
RFC 826
RFC 826 ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
ARP
ⓘ
Internet standards ⓘ early Internet design ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Internet protocols
ⓘ
computer networking ⓘ computer science ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
protocol designer
ⓘ
standards author ⓘ |
| influenced |
TCP/IP networking implementations
ⓘ
local area network design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ARP specification
ⓘ
Address Resolution Protocol ⓘ
linked to:
ARP
early Internet networking standards ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defining ARP message formats
ⓘ
defining ARP operational semantics ⓘ |
| notableWork | RFC 826 ⓘ |
| partOf | early Internet research community ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | RFC process ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | Internet Engineering Task Force context ⓘ |
| workFocus |
address resolution
ⓘ
network layer protocols ⓘ |
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: David C. Plummer Description of subject: David C. Plummer is a computer scientist best known for authoring the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) specification and contributing to early Internet networking standards.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.