SIGSOFT
E14236
SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, focusing on advancing research, education, and practice in software engineering.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACM SIGSOFT | 19 |
| SIGSOFT canonical | 3 |
| ACM SIGSOFT conference program committees | 1 |
| ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T122392 — 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: SIGSOFT Context triple: [Special Interest Groups, hasExample, SIGSOFT]
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A.
International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering is a premier annual academic and industry forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, practices, and innovations in software engineering.
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B.
SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, focusing on research, development, and education in programming language design and implementation.
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C.
IEEE Software
IEEE Software is a bimonthly peer-reviewed magazine that focuses on software engineering practice, bridging academic research and industry application for software professionals.
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D.
SIGOPS
SIGOPS is the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, a professional community focused on research and innovation in operating systems and related software systems.
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E.
ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Computing Surveys is a leading peer-reviewed journal that publishes comprehensive, in-depth survey articles covering major areas of computer science and computing research.
- 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: SIGSOFT Target entity description: SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, focusing on advancing research, education, and practice in software engineering.
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A.
International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering is a premier annual academic and industry forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, practices, and innovations in software engineering.
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B.
SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, focusing on research, development, and education in programming language design and implementation.
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C.
IEEE Software
IEEE Software is a bimonthly peer-reviewed magazine that focuses on software engineering practice, bridging academic research and industry application for software professionals.
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D.
SIGOPS
SIGOPS is the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, a professional community focused on research and innovation in operating systems and related software systems.
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E.
ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Computing Surveys is a leading peer-reviewed journal that publishes comprehensive, in-depth survey articles covering major areas of computer science and computing research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ACM Special Interest Group
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professional association ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SIGSOFT ⓘ |
| activity |
organizing symposia
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organizing workshops ⓘ publishing conference proceedings ⓘ sponsoring summer schools ⓘ |
| affiliation |
ACM
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linked to:
Association for Computing Machinery
|
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
software engineering ⓘ |
| focus |
empirical software engineering
ⓘ
software architecture ⓘ software design ⓘ software engineering education ⓘ software engineering methods ⓘ software engineering processes ⓘ software engineering tools ⓘ software maintenance ⓘ software project management ⓘ software quality ⓘ software reliability ⓘ software requirements ⓘ software testing ⓘ |
| fullName |
ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
ⓘ
linked to:
SIGSOFT
|
| hasAward |
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ⓘ
linked to:
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizesConference |
ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
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International Conference on Software Engineering ⓘ International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis ⓘ Joint European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| purpose |
advance education in software engineering
ⓘ
advance practice of software engineering ⓘ advance research in software engineering ⓘ |
| scope | international ⓘ |
| sponsorsEvent |
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards
ⓘ
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award ⓘ ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ |
| supports |
software engineering educators
ⓘ
software engineering practitioners ⓘ software engineering research community ⓘ |
| website | https://www.sigsoft.org/ ⓘ |
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: SIGSOFT Description of subject: SIGSOFT is the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, focusing on advancing research, education, and practice in software engineering.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
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sponsor
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ACM SIGSOFT
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linked to: SIGSOFT
ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
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organizer
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ACM SIGSOFT
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linked to: SIGSOFT
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