“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
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“How to Report Bugs Effectively” is a widely cited essay by Simon Tatham that teaches software users and testers how to write clear, useful bug reports that help developers diagnose and fix problems efficiently.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How to Report Bugs Effectively | 1 |
| essay “How to Report Bugs Effectively” | 1 |
| “How to Report Bugs Effectively” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2113735 — 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: “How to Report Bugs Effectively” Context triple: [Simon Tatham, authored, “How to Report Bugs Effectively”]
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A.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
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B.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a widely respected software engineering book by Michael Feathers that teaches practical techniques for understanding, testing, and safely modifying existing codebases.
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C.
Effective software development series
Effective software development series is a collection of programming and software engineering books by Scott Meyers that provide practical guidelines and best practices for writing high-quality code.
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D.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
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E.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is a seminal software engineering book by Martin Fowler that systematically defines refactoring techniques to improve code structure while preserving behavior.
- 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: “How to Report Bugs Effectively” Target entity description: “How to Report Bugs Effectively” is a widely cited essay by Simon Tatham that teaches software users and testers how to write clear, useful bug reports that help developers diagnose and fix problems efficiently.
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A.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
-
B.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a widely respected software engineering book by Michael Feathers that teaches practical techniques for understanding, testing, and safely modifying existing codebases.
-
C.
Effective software development series
Effective software development series is a collection of programming and software engineering books by Scott Meyers that provide practical guidelines and best practices for writing high-quality code.
-
D.
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
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E.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" is a seminal software engineering book by Martin Fowler that systematically defines refactoring techniques to improve code structure while preserving behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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technical writing ⓘ |
| author | Simon Tatham ⓘ |
| availableAs | online article ⓘ |
| describesConcept |
actual behavior
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bad bug report ⓘ environment details ⓘ expected behavior ⓘ good bug report ⓘ minimal test case ⓘ reproducible bug ⓘ steps to reproduce ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
clarity in communication
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objective descriptions over emotional reactions ⓘ reproducibility of bugs ⓘ respect for developers ⓘ saving developer time ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
bug reporting templates
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issue tracker guidelines ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
open source contributors
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software developers ⓘ software testers ⓘ software users ⓘ |
| isWidelyCitedIn |
bug reporting guidelines
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open source projects ⓘ software development communities ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
bug reporting
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developer–user communication ⓘ software quality ⓘ software testing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
How to Report Bugs Effectively
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| purpose |
to help developers diagnose and fix software problems efficiently
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to teach users how to write clear and useful bug reports ⓘ |
| recommendsIncluding |
configuration details
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exact error messages ⓘ operating system information ⓘ precise reproduction steps ⓘ software version ⓘ what actually happened ⓘ what the reporter expected to happen ⓘ |
| recommendsPractice |
avoiding speculation about the cause
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being polite and concise ⓘ checking for existing reports ⓘ providing sample data or files when appropriate ⓘ reducing the bug to the simplest possible test case ⓘ testing assumptions before reporting ⓘ |
| relatedWorkOf | Simon Tatham ⓘ |
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: “How to Report Bugs Effectively” Description of subject: “How to Report Bugs Effectively” is a widely cited essay by Simon Tatham that teaches software users and testers how to write clear, useful bug reports that help developers diagnose and fix problems efficiently.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
essay “How to Report Bugs Effectively”
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
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notableWork
→
“How to Report Bugs Effectively”
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Simon Tatham
this entity surface form:
How to Report Bugs Effectively