ACM Distinguished Service Award
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The ACM Distinguished Service Award is a prestigious honor presented by the Association for Computing Machinery to individuals who have made outstanding service contributions to the computing community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACM Distinguished Service Award canonical | 10 |
| ACM service awards | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781240 — 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: ACM Distinguished Service Award Context triple: [Alan Perlis, awardReceived, ACM Distinguished Service Award]
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A.
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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B.
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
The ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award is a recognition given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the programming languages community through dedicated service and leadership.
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C.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award is a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional, long-term service and contributions to the software engineering community.
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D.
AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award
The AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious computer science honor recognizing outstanding contributions to information processing and computing.
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E.
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.
- 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: ACM Distinguished Service Award Target entity description: The ACM Distinguished Service Award is a prestigious honor presented by the Association for Computing Machinery to individuals who have made outstanding service contributions to the computing community.
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A.
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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B.
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
The ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award is a recognition given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the programming languages community through dedicated service and leadership.
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C.
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award is a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional, long-term service and contributions to the software engineering community.
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D.
AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award
The AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious computer science honor recognizing outstanding contributions to information processing and computing.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award
ⓘ
computer science award ⓘ service award ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ACM DSA
ⓘ
linked to:
ACM
|
| awardedFor |
outstanding service to the computing community
ⓘ
service to the ACM community ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
computing ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1966 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
ACM awards
ⓘ
linked to:
ACM Awards Committee
computer science awards ⓘ service awards in science and technology ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-service ⓘ |
| inception | 1966 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| notableRecipient |
Barbara Liskov
ⓘ
Eric A. Brewer ⓘ Jeannette M. Wing ⓘ Moshe Y. Vardi ⓘ Peter J. Denning ⓘ Raj Reddy ⓘ Vinton G. Cerf ⓘ
linked to:
Vinton Cerf
|
| organizationTypeOfPresenter | professional computing society ⓘ |
| partOf |
ACM Awards
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy of Country Music Award
|
| presentedAt |
ACM Awards Banquet
ⓘ
linked to:
ACM Awards Committee
|
| presentedBy |
ACM
ⓘ
Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| purpose | to recognize outstanding service contributions to the computing community ⓘ |
| scope | international ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | committee selection ⓘ |
| sponsor | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
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: ACM Distinguished Service Award Description of subject: The ACM Distinguished Service Award is a prestigious honor presented by the Association for Computing Machinery to individuals who have made outstanding service contributions to the computing community.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ACM Distinguished Service Award