Hillside Group
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Hillside Group is a software patterns and agile development community best known for organizing the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) conferences and advancing the use of design patterns in software engineering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hillside Group canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224359 — 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: Hillside Group Context triple: [Ward Cunningham, memberOf, Hillside Group]
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A.
Marshall Group
Marshall Group is a British aerospace and defense company based in Cambridge, known for its aviation services, engineering, and property businesses.
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B.
Hillwood Development
Hillwood Development is a prominent real estate development company founded by Ross Perot Jr., known for large-scale commercial and mixed-use projects across the United States.
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C.
SpringHill Company
SpringHill Company is a media and entertainment firm co-founded by NBA superstar LeBron James that produces films, television, and digital content often centered on culture, sports, and empowerment.
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D.
Supai Group
The Supai Group is a prominent sequence of red sandstone, siltstone, and shale rock layers that forms striking cliffs and slopes in many canyons and mesas across the Colorado Plateau.
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E.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
- 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: Hillside Group Target entity description: Hillside Group is a software patterns and agile development community best known for organizing the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) conferences and advancing the use of design patterns in software engineering.
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A.
Marshall Group
Marshall Group is a British aerospace and defense company based in Cambridge, known for its aviation services, engineering, and property businesses.
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B.
Hillwood Development
Hillwood Development is a prominent real estate development company founded by Ross Perot Jr., known for large-scale commercial and mixed-use projects across the United States.
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C.
SpringHill Company
SpringHill Company is a media and entertainment firm co-founded by NBA superstar LeBron James that produces films, television, and digital content often centered on culture, sports, and empowerment.
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D.
Supai Group
The Supai Group is a prominent sequence of red sandstone, siltstone, and shale rock layers that forms striking cliffs and slopes in many canyons and mesas across the Colorado Plateau.
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E.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
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patterns community ⓘ software engineering organization ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| collaboratesWith |
industry practitioners
ⓘ
software engineering researchers ⓘ |
| field |
agile software development
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software design patterns ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
agile development practices
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design patterns in software ⓘ pattern languages ⓘ software patterns ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Hillside ⓘ |
| hasCommunityType |
academic and practitioner community
ⓘ
professional community ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
foster a community around pattern languages
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promote the use of patterns in software development ⓘ support authors and researchers of software patterns ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | annual PLoP conference ⓘ |
| hostsEventType |
software patterns conferences
ⓘ
workshops on pattern languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy | design patterns movement in software engineering ⓘ |
| influences |
agile software development practices
ⓘ
software patterns community ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advancing the use of design patterns in software engineering
ⓘ
organizing PLoP conferences ⓘ supporting the patterns community ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Hillside Group self-link ⓘ |
| organizes |
PLoP conference series
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Pattern Languages of Programs conference ⓘ regional PLoP conferences ⓘ |
| promotesConcept |
agile patterns
ⓘ
design patterns ⓘ pattern languages ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Pattern Languages of Programs conference
ⓘ
surface form:
Pattern Languages of Programs
agile development community ⓘ software design patterns ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
pattern education
ⓘ
pattern mining ⓘ pattern writing ⓘ |
| topicOf |
Pattern Languages of Programs conference
ⓘ
surface form:
Pattern Languages of Programs conference series
|
| usesMethod | writers workshops for pattern review ⓘ |
| website | http://www.hillside.net/ ⓘ |
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: Hillside Group Description of subject: Hillside Group is a software patterns and agile development community best known for organizing the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) conferences and advancing the use of design patterns in software engineering.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.