Alan Davidson
E60086
Alan Davidson is a U.S. technology policy expert and government official who has held senior roles shaping national internet, telecommunications, and digital policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Davidson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T476336 — 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: Alan Davidson Context triple: [National Telecommunications and Information Administration, employer, Alan Davidson]
-
A.
Daniel Patterson
Daniel Patterson was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
-
B.
Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
-
C.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
-
D.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
-
E.
Richard Saller
Richard Saller is an American classical historian and academic administrator who serves as president of Stanford University.
- 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: Alan Davidson Target entity description: Alan Davidson is a U.S. technology policy expert and government official who has held senior roles shaping national internet, telecommunications, and digital policy.
-
A.
Daniel Patterson
Daniel Patterson was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
-
B.
Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
-
C.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
-
D.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
-
E.
Richard Saller
Richard Saller is an American classical historian and academic administrator who serves as president of Stanford University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government official
ⓘ
human ⓘ technology policy expert ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Center for Democracy and Technology
ⓘ
Google ⓘ Mozilla Foundation ⓘ National Telecommunications and Information Administration ⓘ United States Department of Commerce ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
|
| fieldOfWork |
digital policy
ⓘ
internet policy ⓘ technology policy ⓘ telecommunications policy ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Juris Doctor from Yale Law School
ⓘ
degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| legalAdmission | bar of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| notableFor |
shaping U.S. digital policy
ⓘ
shaping U.S. internet policy ⓘ shaping U.S. telecommunications policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil liberties advocate
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
ⓘ
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information ⓘ Director of Public Policy for the Americas at Google ⓘ Director of the Washington office of the Center for Democracy and Technology ⓘ Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security at Mozilla ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Alan Davidson Description of subject: Alan Davidson is a U.S. technology policy expert and government official who has held senior roles shaping national internet, telecommunications, and digital policy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.