David Clark
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David Clark is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential contributions to the design and architecture of the Internet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Clark canonical | 1 |
| David D. Clark | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3414362 — 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 Clark Context triple: [SIGCOMM Award, notableRecipient, David Clark]
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A.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
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B.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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C.
C. R. Smith
C. R. Smith was a pioneering American airline executive who transformed American Airlines into a major global carrier and helped shape the modern commercial aviation industry.
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D.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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E.
A. James Clark
A. James Clark was an American construction executive and philanthropist known for leading Clark Enterprises and making major contributions to engineering education.
- 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 Clark Target entity description: David Clark is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential contributions to the design and architecture of the Internet.
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A.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
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B.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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C.
C. R. Smith
C. R. Smith was a pioneering American airline executive who transformed American Airlines into a major global carrier and helped shape the modern commercial aviation industry.
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D.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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E.
A. James Clark
A. James Clark was an American construction executive and philanthropist known for leading Clark Enterprises and making major contributions to engineering education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM SIGCOMM Award
ⓘ
linked to:
SIGCOMM Award
IEEE Internet Award ⓘ National Academy of Engineering membership ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
Swarthmore College ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Clark ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Internet architecture
ⓘ
computer networking ⓘ computer science ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the modern Internet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Internet architecture
ⓘ
Internet protocol design ⓘ design of the Internet ⓘ end-to-end principle in networking ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Internet Architecture Board
ⓘ
Internet Engineering Task Force community ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| name | David D. Clark ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableIdea | end-to-end arguments in system design ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on Internet congestion control and quality of service
ⓘ
“The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols” ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
ⓘ
network architect ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Protocol Architect of the Internet
ⓘ
Internet Architecture Board chair ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Architecture Board
Senior Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Internet governance
ⓘ
network architecture ⓘ network economics ⓘ security and reliability of the Internet ⓘ |
| workplace | MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ⓘ |
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 Clark Description of subject: David Clark is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential contributions to the design and architecture of the Internet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Clark