Ada Lovelace

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computer programming pioneer human mathematician writer

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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer programming pioneer → human → mathematician → writer →
birthName	Augusta Ada Byron →
causeOfDeath	uterine cancer →
child	Anne Blunt → Byron King-Noel → Ralph King-Milbanke →
citizenship	United Kingdom →
collaborator	Charles Babbage →
commemoratedBy	Ada Lovelace Day →
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
dateOfBirth	1815-12-10 →
dateOfDeath	1852-11-27 →
educatedAt	home education →
era	Victorian era →
familyName	Byron →
father	George Gordon Byron → Lord Byron →
fieldOfWork	computer science → computing → mathematics →
genre	scientific writing →
givenName	Ada → Augusta →
hasLegacy	Ada programming language named after her → considered a symbol for women in STEM →
hasOccupation	mathematician → translator → writer →
honorificPrefix	The Right Honourable →
influenced	history of computing →
influencedBy	Charles Babbage → Mary Somerville →
knownFor	being regarded as the first computer programmer → early algorithm for a computing machine → work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
marriedName	King →
mother	Annabella Milbanke →
name	Ada Lovelace →
nationality	British →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	Notes on the Analytical Engine →
numberOfChildren	3 →
placeOfBirth	London →
placeOfDeath	London →
religion	Anglicanism →
sexOrGender	female →
spouse	William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace →
title	Countess of Lovelace →
translatedWork	Luigi Menabrea’s article on the Analytical Engine →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Annabella Milbanke → Annabella Milbanke ("Augusta Ada King-Noel") → Lord Byron →	child
Annabella Milbanke → Annabella Milbanke ("Augusta Ada King-Noel") →	motherOf
Milbanke family →	associatedWith
Ada Lovelace ("Augusta Ada Byron") →	birthName
Hucknall →	burialPlaceOf
Spyfall →	featuresCharacter
Milbanke family →	hasDescendant
Charles Babbage →	influenced
Ada Lovelace →	name
Ada (programming language) →	namedAfter
Amanda Seyfried ("Lovelace") →	notableWork
Lord Byron →	relative