Lucy Suchman
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Lucy Suchman is an influential anthropologist and scholar of human-computer interaction, best known for her work on situated action and the social dimensions of technology design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lucy Suchman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3414202 — 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: Lucy Suchman Context triple: [SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Lucy Suchman]
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A.
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is a pioneering British computer scientist and professor known for her influential work in hypermedia, the World Wide Web, and web science.
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B.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
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C.
Julie Robinson
Julie Robinson is a former American dancer and actress best known as the longtime wife of singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
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D.
Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Somerville is an Irish-born British actress best known for her roles in the Harry Potter film series and numerous acclaimed British television dramas and period films.
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E.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
- 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: Lucy Suchman Target entity description: Lucy Suchman is an influential anthropologist and scholar of human-computer interaction, best known for her work on situated action and the social dimensions of technology design.
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A.
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall is a pioneering British computer scientist and professor known for her influential work in hypermedia, the World Wide Web, and web science.
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B.
Sandra Lovelock
Sandra Lovelock is known as the wife of British scientist James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis.
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C.
Julie Robinson
Julie Robinson is a former American dancer and actress best known as the longtime wife of singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
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D.
Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Somerville is an Irish-born British actress best known for her roles in the Harry Potter film series and numerous acclaimed British television dramas and period films.
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E.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human-computer interaction researcher ⓘ person ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award
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surface form:
SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
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| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ |
| employer |
Lancaster University
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Xerox PARC ⓘ
surface form:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
|
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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feminist technoscience ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ science and technology studies ⓘ sociology of technology ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | sociology ⓘ |
| influenced |
computer-supported cooperative work
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human-computer interaction ⓘ interaction design ⓘ practice-based studies of work ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Harold Garfinkel
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ethnomethodology ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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SIGCHI ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical perspectives on human-computer interaction
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ethnographic studies of human-machine interaction ⓘ research on social dimensions of technology design ⓘ theory of situated action ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
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Plans and Situated Actions ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University
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faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University ⓘ researcher at Xerox PARC ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
accountability in human-computer interaction
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artificial intelligence ⓘ automation ⓘ human-machine interaction ⓘ military technology ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach |
feminist technoscience
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practice-based approaches to cognition ⓘ situated action ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lucy Suchman Description of subject: Lucy Suchman is an influential anthropologist and scholar of human-computer interaction, best known for her work on situated action and the social dimensions of technology design.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.