Newmark Medal
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The Newmark Medal is a prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers award recognizing outstanding contributions to structural engineering and mechanics, particularly in areas related to earthquake and structural dynamics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newmark Medal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4966557 — 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: Newmark Medal Context triple: [Zdeněk P. Bažant, awardReceived, Newmark Medal]
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A.
Kober Medal
The Kober Medal is a prestigious honor awarded by the Association of American Physicians to recognize outstanding contributions to academic medicine and medical research.
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B.
Rufus Oldenburger Medal
The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious engineering award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control.
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C.
Sue Tyler Friedman Medal
The Sue Tyler Friedman Medal is a prestigious award in the history of geology, presented by the Geological Society of London to recognize distinguished contributions to the study of the history of the geological sciences.
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D.
Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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E.
Remsen Award
The Remsen Award is a prestigious chemistry honor recognizing outstanding research achievements, particularly in organic and bioorganic chemistry.
- 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: Newmark Medal Target entity description: The Newmark Medal is a prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers award recognizing outstanding contributions to structural engineering and mechanics, particularly in areas related to earthquake and structural dynamics.
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A.
Kober Medal
The Kober Medal is a prestigious honor awarded by the Association of American Physicians to recognize outstanding contributions to academic medicine and medical research.
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B.
Rufus Oldenburger Medal
The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious engineering award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control.
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C.
Sue Tyler Friedman Medal
The Sue Tyler Friedman Medal is a prestigious award in the history of geology, presented by the Geological Society of London to recognize distinguished contributions to the study of the history of the geological sciences.
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D.
Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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E.
Remsen Award
The Remsen Award is a prestigious chemistry honor recognizing outstanding research achievements, particularly in organic and bioorganic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ASCE medal
ⓘ
civil engineering award ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Newmark Medal ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ASCE Structural Engineering Institute
ⓘ
linked to:
American Society of Civil Engineers
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| awardedFor |
contributions to earthquake engineering
ⓘ
contributions to structural dynamics ⓘ outstanding contributions to structural engineering ⓘ outstanding contributions to structural mechanics ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| discipline |
structural dynamics
ⓘ
structural mechanics ⓘ |
| domain | infrastructure and the built environment ⓘ |
| eligibility |
engineers
ⓘ
researchers in earthquake engineering ⓘ researchers in structural dynamics ⓘ researchers in structural engineering ⓘ researchers in structural mechanics ⓘ |
| field |
civil engineering
ⓘ
earthquake engineering ⓘ engineering mechanics ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ |
| hasAwardingBodyType | professional engineering society ⓘ |
| honors | Nathan M. Newmark ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nathan M. Newmark ⓘ |
| presentedBy | American Society of Civil Engineers ⓘ |
| sponsor | American Society of Civil Engineers ⓘ |
| type | professional society award ⓘ |
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: Newmark Medal Description of subject: The Newmark Medal is a prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers award recognizing outstanding contributions to structural engineering and mechanics, particularly in areas related to earthquake and structural dynamics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.