Mark Weiser Award
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The Mark Weiser Award is a prestigious computer science honor recognizing mid-career researchers for visionary contributions to ubiquitous computing and related fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award | 1 |
| Mark Weiser Award canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2139448 — 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: Mark Weiser Award Context triple: [Jeff Dean, awardReceived, Mark Weiser Award]
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A.
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award is a prestigious IEEE honor recognizing outstanding contributions to communications technology.
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B.
ACM Prize in Computing
The ACM Prize in Computing is a prestigious annual award recognizing early to mid-career computer scientists for influential and innovative contributions to the field of computing.
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C.
Grace Murray Hopper Award
The Grace Murray Hopper Award is a prestigious annual honor presented by the Association for Computing Machinery to recognize outstanding young computer professionals for a single recent major technical or service contribution.
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D.
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is an ACM honor recognizing theoretical computer science achievements that have had a significant and demonstrable impact on practical computing.
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E.
ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
The ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award is a prestigious annual honor jointly presented by ACM and IEEE to recognize outstanding contributions to computer architecture.
- 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: Mark Weiser Award Target entity description: The Mark Weiser Award is a prestigious computer science honor recognizing mid-career researchers for visionary contributions to ubiquitous computing and related fields.
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A.
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award is a prestigious IEEE honor recognizing outstanding contributions to communications technology.
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B.
ACM Prize in Computing
The ACM Prize in Computing is a prestigious annual award recognizing early to mid-career computer scientists for influential and innovative contributions to the field of computing.
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C.
Grace Murray Hopper Award
The Grace Murray Hopper Award is a prestigious annual honor presented by the Association for Computing Machinery to recognize outstanding young computer professionals for a single recent major technical or service contribution.
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D.
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is an ACM honor recognizing theoretical computer science achievements that have had a significant and demonstrable impact on practical computing.
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E.
ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
The ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award is a prestigious annual honor jointly presented by ACM and IEEE to recognize outstanding contributions to computer architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic honor
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computer science award ⓘ research award ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ubiquitous computing research community ⓘ |
| awardedFor |
influential research in ubiquitous and pervasive computing
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leadership in ubiquitous computing research community ⓘ visionary contributions to ubiquitous computing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| discipline | computer science ⓘ |
| field |
human-computer interaction
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pervasive computing ⓘ ubiquitous computing ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| honors | contributions to ubiquitous computing and related fields ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mark Weiser ⓘ |
| recipientCareerStage | mid-career researchers ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
community leadership
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research impact ⓘ visionary contributions ⓘ |
| status | prestigious ⓘ |
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: Mark Weiser Award Description of subject: The Mark Weiser Award is a prestigious computer science honor recognizing mid-career researchers for visionary contributions to ubiquitous computing and related fields.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mark Weiser Award