Mary Shaw
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Mary Shaw is a prominent American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering contributions to software architecture and software engineering research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4177251 — 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: Mary Shaw Context triple: [ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, hasRecipient, Mary Shaw]
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A.
Kim Weston
Kim Weston is an American soul and R&B singer best known for her 1960s Motown recordings and duets with Marvin Gaye.
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B.
Marilyn Vance
Marilyn Vance is an American costume designer known for her influential work on numerous popular films, including iconic 1980s and 1990s movies.
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C.
Nina Warren
Nina Warren was the wife of U.S. Chief Justice and former California Governor Earl Warren and a prominent political hostess and partner in his public life.
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D.
Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Anderson is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter known for her poetic lyrics and innovative musical style.
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E.
Melanie Ralston
Melanie Ralston is a laid-back, manipulative surfer girl and stoner who becomes entangled in the criminal schemes surrounding Ordell Robbie in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown."
- 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: Mary Shaw Target entity description: Mary Shaw is a prominent American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering contributions to software architecture and software engineering research.
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A.
Kim Weston
Kim Weston is an American soul and R&B singer best known for her 1960s Motown recordings and duets with Marvin Gaye.
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B.
Marilyn Vance
Marilyn Vance is an American costume designer known for her influential work on numerous popular films, including iconic 1980s and 1990s movies.
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C.
Nina Warren
Nina Warren was the wife of U.S. Chief Justice and former California Governor Earl Warren and a prominent political hostess and partner in his public life.
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D.
Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Anderson is the birth name of Joni Mitchell, the influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter known for her poetic lyrics and innovative musical style.
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E.
Melanie Ralston
Melanie Ralston is a laid-back, manipulative surfer girl and stoner who becomes entangled in the criminal schemes surrounding Ordell Robbie in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| authorOf | Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Distinguished Service Award
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ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award ⓘ IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Educator Award ⓘ National Medal of Technology and Innovation ⓘ |
| coAuthor | David Garlan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
CMU
ⓘ
surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
Rice University ⓘ |
| employer |
CMU
ⓘ
surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
software architecture ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| hasRole |
research leader in software architecture
ⓘ
software engineering educator ⓘ |
| influenced | research on software architecture styles and patterns ⓘ |
| influencedBy | early work on programming languages and software design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advancing software engineering as an engineering discipline
ⓘ
foundational work on software architecture styles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
ⓘ
IEEE Computer Society ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping define software architecture as a distinct subfield of software engineering
ⓘ
pioneering contributions to software architecture ⓘ research in software engineering ⓘ |
| notableWork | Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science
ⓘ
Chief Scientist of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University ⓘ |
| publicationTopic |
software architecture
ⓘ
software design ⓘ software engineering education ⓘ |
| workLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Mary Shaw Description of subject: Mary Shaw is a prominent American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering contributions to software architecture and software engineering research.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.