Turing Award
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The Turing Award is a prestigious annual prize often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," honoring individuals for major contributions to the field of computer science.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T311 — 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: Turing Award Context triple: [Douglas Engelbart, awardReceived, Turing Award]
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National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals for outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge and advancement.
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Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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Edison Medal
The Edison Medal is a prestigious electrical engineering award presented by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the field of electrical science and engineering.
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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.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
- 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: Turing Award Target entity description: The Turing Award is a prestigious annual prize often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," honoring individuals for major contributions to the field of computer science.
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A.
National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals for outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge and advancement.
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B.
Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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C.
Edison Medal
The Edison Medal is a prestigious electrical engineering award presented by the IEEE for outstanding contributions to the field of electrical science and engineering.
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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.
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E.
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual award
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computer science award ⓘ international award ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ACM A. M. Turing Award
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linked to:
Turing Award
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| awardedFor | major contributions of lasting importance in computing ⓘ |
| awardingBodyType | professional association ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describedAs |
Nobel Prize of Computing
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linked to:
Turing Award
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| discipline |
algorithms
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artificial intelligence ⓘ computer architecture ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ programming languages ⓘ systems ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| eligibility |
computer scientists
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individuals ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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computing ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1966 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| fullName |
A. M. Turing Award
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linked to:
Turing Award
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| hasNotableRecipient |
Alan Perlis
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Barbara Liskov ⓘ Donald E. Knuth ⓘ Edsger W. Dijkstra ⓘ Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ John McCarthy ⓘ Leslie Lamport ⓘ Martin Hellman ⓘ Marvin Minsky ⓘ Shafi Goldwasser ⓘ Silvio Micali ⓘ Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ Tony Hoare ⓘ Whitfield Diffie ⓘ Yann LeCun ⓘ Yoshua Bengio ⓘ |
| inception | 1966 ⓘ |
| languageOfAwardingBody | English ⓘ |
| monetaryValue | 1000000 USD ⓘ |
| monetaryValueSponsor | Google ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alan Turing ⓘ |
| organizer | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| purpose |
to honor major contributions to computer science
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to recognize contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing community ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | peer review by ACM-appointed committee ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Association for Computing Machinery
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Google ⓘ |
| typicalAnnouncementTime | annually ⓘ |
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: Turing Award Description of subject: The Turing Award is a prestigious annual prize often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," honoring individuals for major contributions to the field of computer science.
Referenced by (132)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lick
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awardReceived
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ACM Turing Award (posthumous recognition as a pioneer, though not a formal laureate)
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linked to: Turing Award
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subject linked to:
Herbert Simon
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Bailey
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Yoshua
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Yoshua
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Yann
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Ken Thompson
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receivedAwardFor
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Turing Award for the development of generic operating systems theory and the implementation of the Unix operating system
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linked to: Turing Award
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linked to: Turing Award