ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
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The ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize is an award presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory to recognize outstanding service contributions to the theoretical computer science community.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize canonical | 2 |
| ACM SIGACT Award | 1 |
| ACM SIGACT awards program | 1 |
| SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2384374 — 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 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Context triple: [Zohar Manna, awardReceived, ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize]
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A.
ACM Distinguished Service Award
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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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.
ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
The ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award is a prestigious annual honor jointly presented by ACM and IEEE to recognize outstanding contributions to computer architecture.
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E.
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.
- 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 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Target entity description: The ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize is an award presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory to recognize outstanding service contributions to the theoretical computer science community.
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A.
ACM Distinguished Service Award
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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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.
ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
The ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award is a prestigious annual honor jointly presented by ACM and IEEE to recognize outstanding contributions to computer architecture.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award
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computer science award ⓘ service award ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
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| awardingBody |
SIGACT
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surface form:
ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discipline | theory of computation ⓘ |
| domain |
algorithms
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computation theory ⓘ |
| eligibility | members of the theoretical computer science community ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| givenFor |
distinguished service to the theoretical computer science community
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outstanding service contributions in algorithms and computation theory ⓘ |
| inception | 1997 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ACM SIGACT awards program
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| notableRecipient |
Avi Wigderson
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Christos H. Papadimitriou ⓘ David S. Johnson ⓘ
surface form:
Michael R. Garey
Richard Karp ⓘ
surface form:
Richard M. Karp
Ronald L. Rivest ⓘ Shafi Goldwasser ⓘ |
| organizationTypeOfPresenter | professional association ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
SIGACT
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surface form:
ACM SIGACT
SIGACT ⓘ
surface form:
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
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| purpose | to recognize outstanding service contributions to the theoretical computer science community ⓘ |
| sponsor |
SIGACT
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surface form:
ACM SIGACT
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| typicalVenue | ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing ⓘ |
| website | https://sigact.org ⓘ |
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 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Description of subject: The ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize is an award presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory to recognize outstanding service contributions to the theoretical computer science community.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ACM SIGACT Award
ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
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abbreviation
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ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
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isPartOf
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ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ACM SIGACT awards program