Dewayne E. Perry
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Dewayne E. Perry is a prominent software engineering researcher known for his influential contributions to the field, recognized by honors such as the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dewayne E. Perry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4177254 — 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: Dewayne E. Perry Context triple: [ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, hasRecipient, Dewayne E. Perry]
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A.
Darryl W. Perry
Darryl W. Perry is an American libertarian activist, author, and perennial political candidate known for his involvement in the Libertarian Party and the Free State Project in New Hampshire.
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B.
Tyrone S. Woods
Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
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C.
J. Terry Williams
J. Terry Williams is a film editor best known for his work on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 dark comedy thriller "Family Plot."
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D.
Darryl M. Bell
Darryl M. Bell is an American actor best known for his role as Ron Johnson Jr. on the television sitcom "A Different World."
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E.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
- 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: Dewayne E. Perry Target entity description: Dewayne E. Perry is a prominent software engineering researcher known for his influential contributions to the field, recognized by honors such as the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.
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A.
Darryl W. Perry
Darryl W. Perry is an American libertarian activist, author, and perennial political candidate known for his involvement in the Libertarian Party and the Free State Project in New Hampshire.
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B.
Tyrone S. Woods
Tyrone S. Woods was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed while defending American personnel during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
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C.
J. Terry Williams
J. Terry Williams is a film editor best known for his work on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1976 dark comedy thriller "Family Plot."
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D.
Darryl M. Bell
Darryl M. Bell is an American actor best known for his role as Ron Johnson Jr. on the television sitcom "A Different World."
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E.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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software engineering researcher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfWork |
empirical software engineering
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requirements engineering ⓘ software architecture ⓘ software engineering ⓘ software evolution ⓘ software process ⓘ |
| genre | scientific publications ⓘ |
| hasRole |
academic
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author ⓘ researcher ⓘ software engineering educator ⓘ |
| knownFor |
empirical studies of software engineering practice
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influential contributions to software engineering research ⓘ work on software architecture and design ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
improving software engineering practice
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software processes and methodologies ⓘ software quality ⓘ |
| memberOf | Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on empirical methods in software engineering
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research on software architecture ⓘ research on software evolution and maintenance ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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professor ⓘ |
| participatesIn | software engineering conferences ⓘ |
| publishesIn | software engineering journals ⓘ |
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: Dewayne E. Perry Description of subject: Dewayne E. Perry is a prominent software engineering researcher known for his influential contributions to the field, recognized by honors such as the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.