Grace Hopper
E81962
United States Navy officer
computer scientist
human
mathematician
pioneer of computer science
programmer
rear admiral
Grace Hopper was a pioneering American computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for her work on early programming languages and the development of COBOL.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Grace Hopper canonical | 11 |
| Grace Brewster Murray Hopper | 2 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | 1 |
| Margaret Hamilton | 1 |
| computer scientist Grace Hopper | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T654083 — 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: Grace Hopper Context triple: [Grace Murray Hopper Award, namedAfter, Grace Hopper]
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A.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in programming languages, data abstraction, and distributed systems, and is one of the first women to receive the Turing Award.
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C.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician and writer widely regarded as the first computer programmer for her pioneering work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
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D.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
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E.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
- 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: Grace Hopper Target entity description: Grace Hopper was a pioneering American computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for her work on early programming languages and the development of COBOL.
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A.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was an American character actress best known for her iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."
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B.
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in programming languages, data abstraction, and distributed systems, and is one of the first women to receive the Turing Award.
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C.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician and writer widely regarded as the first computer programmer for her pioneering work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
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D.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
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E.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Grace Hopper Description of subject: Grace Hopper was a pioneering American computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for her work on early programming languages and the development of COBOL.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Grace Hopper
linked to: Grace Hopper
ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education
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notableRecipient
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Grace Murray Hopper
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linked to: Grace Hopper
subject linked to:
FLOW-MATIC programming language
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FLOW-MATIC programming language
linked to: Grace Hopper
subject linked to:
Amazing Grace
linked to: Grace Hopper
subject linked to:
Harvard Mark I computer