Web Science
E418307
Web Science is an interdisciplinary field that studies the social, technical, and conceptual structures of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Web Science canonical | 1 |
| Web science | 1 |
| World Wide Web studies | 1 |
| web science | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4171699 — 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: Web Science Context triple: [ACM Web Science Conference, field, Web Science]
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A.
Web Science Research Initiative
The Web Science Research Initiative is an academic and interdisciplinary organization dedicated to studying the social, technical, and scientific aspects of the World Wide Web.
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B.
Information Technology and Web Science
Information Technology and Web Science is a multidisciplinary academic program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that integrates computing, data science, and the study of the web’s technical and societal impacts.
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C.
Web Science Trust
The Web Science Trust is a charitable organization that promotes the interdisciplinary study and advancement of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
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D.
ACM Web Science Conference
The ACM Web Science Conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the complex interactions between the Web’s technical infrastructure and its social, economic, and political impacts.
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E.
ACM SIGWEB
ACM SIGWEB is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on hypertext, hypermedia, and the web.
- 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: Web Science Target entity description: Web Science is an interdisciplinary field that studies the social, technical, and conceptual structures of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
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A.
Web Science Research Initiative
The Web Science Research Initiative is an academic and interdisciplinary organization dedicated to studying the social, technical, and scientific aspects of the World Wide Web.
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B.
Information Technology and Web Science
Information Technology and Web Science is a multidisciplinary academic program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that integrates computing, data science, and the study of the web’s technical and societal impacts.
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C.
Web Science Trust
The Web Science Trust is a charitable organization that promotes the interdisciplinary study and advancement of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
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D.
ACM Web Science Conference
The ACM Web Science Conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the complex interactions between the Web’s technical infrastructure and its social, economic, and political impacts.
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E.
ACM SIGWEB
ACM SIGWEB is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on hypertext, hypermedia, and the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic discipline
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interdisciplinary field ⓘ research field ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze large-scale Web data
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inform the design of future Web technologies ⓘ support effective Web governance and policy ⓘ understand the Web as a socio-technical system ⓘ |
| drawsOnDiscipline |
computer science
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data science ⓘ economics ⓘ information science ⓘ law ⓘ network science ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political science ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| emergedInDecade | 2000s ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Web data and information
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ethics of Web technologies ⓘ evolution of the Web ⓘ governance of the Web ⓘ impact of the Web on society ⓘ interaction between people and the Web ⓘ |
| hasConference | ACM Web Science Conference ⓘ |
| hasEducationalProgramsIn | universities worldwide ⓘ |
| hasOrganization | Web Science Trust ⓘ |
| includesTopic |
Web accessibility
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Web architecture ⓘ Web economics ⓘ Web protocols ⓘ Web search and discovery ⓘ Web-based collaboration ⓘ linked data and the Semantic Web ⓘ misinformation on the Web ⓘ online communities ⓘ online social networks ⓘ privacy on the Web ⓘ security on the Web ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Internet studies
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Web engineering ⓘ World Wide Web ⓘ cyberlaw ⓘ digital humanities ⓘ digital sociology ⓘ human–computer interaction ⓘ |
| studies |
World Wide Web
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conceptual structures of the Web ⓘ social structures of the Web ⓘ technical structures of the Web ⓘ |
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: Web Science Description of subject: Web Science is an interdisciplinary field that studies the social, technical, and conceptual structures of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
web science
this entity surface form:
Web science
this entity surface form:
World Wide Web studies