Clifford Shaw
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Clifford Shaw was an early computer scientist and programmer known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and symbolic computation alongside collaborators like Allen Newell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clifford Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2515744 — 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: Clifford Shaw Context triple: [Allen Newell, coAuthor, Clifford Shaw]
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A.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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B.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
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C.
George L. Kelling
George L. Kelling was an American criminologist best known for co-developing the "broken windows" theory of policing and urban disorder.
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D.
Fredric M. Frank
Fredric M. Frank was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several collaborations with director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake was an influential African American sociologist, anthropologist, and activist known for his pioneering studies of Black urban life and race relations, particularly in Chicago.
- 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: Clifford Shaw Target entity description: Clifford Shaw was an early computer scientist and programmer known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and symbolic computation alongside collaborators like Allen Newell.
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A.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
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B.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
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C.
George L. Kelling
George L. Kelling was an American criminologist best known for co-developing the "broken windows" theory of policing and urban disorder.
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D.
Fredric M. Frank
Fredric M. Frank was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including several collaborations with director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake was an influential African American sociologist, anthropologist, and activist known for his pioneering studies of Black urban life and race relations, particularly in Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence researcher
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computer scientist ⓘ pioneer in symbolic computation ⓘ programmer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Allen Newell ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of symbolic processing techniques
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early AI research collaborations ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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computer science ⓘ symbolic computation ⓘ |
| genre | scientific computing ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator | Allen Newell ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early computer programming
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pioneering work in artificial intelligence ⓘ pioneering work in symbolic computation ⓘ |
| movement | early artificial intelligence research ⓘ |
| notableWork |
early artificial intelligence programs
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symbolic computation systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer scientist
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programmer ⓘ |
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: Clifford Shaw Description of subject: Clifford Shaw was an early computer scientist and programmer known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and symbolic computation alongside collaborators like Allen Newell.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.