Vannevar Bush
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American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
All labels observed (8)
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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electrical engineer ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ science administrator ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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Doctor of Engineering ⓘ Master of Science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edison Medal
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Hoover Medal ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Public Welfare Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1890-03-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-06-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ Tufts College ⓘ |
| employer |
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bush
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linked to:
Vannevar Bush
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| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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electrical engineering ⓘ information science ⓘ science policy ⓘ |
| fullName | Vannevar Bush ⓘ |
| genre | science policy writing ⓘ |
| givenName |
Vannevar
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linked to:
Vannevar Bush
|
| influenced |
Douglas Engelbart
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J. C. R. Licklider ⓘ Ted Nelson ⓘ computer networking research ⓘ information retrieval research ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ Institute of Radio Engineers ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| notableFor |
organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II
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shaping postwar U.S. science policy ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
hypertext precursor
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memex ⓘ
linked to:
As We May Think
|
| notableWork |
As We May Think
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Differential analyzer ⓘ Science, The Endless Frontier ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Everett, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Belmont, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Joint Research and Development Board
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linked to:
Vannevar Bush
Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee ⓘ
linked to:
Vannevar Bush
Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT ⓘ Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development ⓘ President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington ⓘ Vice President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| spouse |
Phoebe Clara Davis
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linked to:
Vannevar Bush
|
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: Vannevar Bush Description of subject: American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vannevar Bush
linked to: Vannevar Bush
linked to: Vannevar Bush
linked to: Vannevar Bush
linked to: Vannevar Bush
subject linked to:
Everett, Massachusetts, United States
subject linked to:
Theodor
Vannevar Bush Award
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namedForRoleOfNamesake
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Vannevar Bush was a key U.S. science administrator during World War II
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linked to: Vannevar Bush
linked to: Vannevar Bush
subject linked to:
Alfred Lee Loomis as both financier and scientist