Ward Parkinson
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Ward Parkinson is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the semiconductor company Micron Technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ward Parkinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9614322 — 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: Ward Parkinson Context triple: [Micron Technology, foundedBy, Ward Parkinson]
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A.
Kenneth W. Parkinson
Kenneth W. Parkinson is an American lawyer best known for being one of the defendants in the Watergate-related criminal case United States v. John N. Mitchell et al.
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B.
Roger Ward
Roger Ward is an Australian actor best known for his role as the tough police officer Fifi Macaffee in the 1979 action film "Mad Max."
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C.
Richard Sibson
Richard Sibson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential work on fault mechanics and earthquake processes.
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D.
David Wardle
David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
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E.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
- 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: Ward Parkinson Target entity description: Ward Parkinson is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the semiconductor company Micron Technology.
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A.
Kenneth W. Parkinson
Kenneth W. Parkinson is an American lawyer best known for being one of the defendants in the Watergate-related criminal case United States v. John N. Mitchell et al.
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B.
Roger Ward
Roger Ward is an Australian actor best known for his role as the tough police officer Fifi Macaffee in the 1979 action film "Mad Max."
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C.
Richard Sibson
Richard Sibson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential work on fault mechanics and earthquake processes.
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D.
David Wardle
David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
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E.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ semiconductor company ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Micron Technology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electrical engineering
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semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
semiconductors
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technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Micron Technology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | American technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| notableRole | early leader at Micron Technology ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Ward Parkinson Description of subject: Ward Parkinson is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the semiconductor company Micron Technology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.