DISC
E467814
DISC is a leading international conference focused on research in distributed computing and related areas of computer science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DISC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4765398 — 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: DISC Context triple: [Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, presentedAt, DISC]
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DIS
DIS is the stock ticker symbol for The Walt Disney Company, a major global entertainment and media conglomerate traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
Dison
Dison is a municipality in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, situated within the French-speaking Walloon region.
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Di
Di is a common shortened form of the given name Diana, often used as an affectionate nickname.
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D.
DSC
The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is a high-level military decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in combat, primarily associated with the United States Army.
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E.
DSC
DSC is a widely used introductory textbook on database systems that covers fundamental concepts such as data models, SQL, and database design.
- 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: DISC Target entity description: DISC is a leading international conference focused on research in distributed computing and related areas of computer science.
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A.
DIS
DIS is the stock ticker symbol for The Walt Disney Company, a major global entertainment and media conglomerate traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
Dison
Dison is a municipality in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, situated within the French-speaking Walloon region.
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C.
Di
Di is a common shortened form of the given name Diana, often used as an affectionate nickname.
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D.
DSC
The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is a high-level military decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in combat, primarily associated with the United States Army.
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E.
DSC
DSC is a widely used introductory textbook on database systems that covers fundamental concepts such as data models, SQL, and database design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic conference
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computer science conference ⓘ distributed computing conference ⓘ |
| audience |
academics
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graduate students in computer science ⓘ industry researchers ⓘ researchers in distributed computing ⓘ |
| category |
algorithms conference
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theoretical computer science conference ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
advancement of distributed computing theory
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dissemination of research results in distributed computing ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
ⓘ
distributed computing ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
algorithms for distributed systems
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concurrency ⓘ distributed complexity theory ⓘ distributed computing models ⓘ distributed consensus ⓘ distributed data structures ⓘ distributed graph algorithms ⓘ distributed systems security (theoretical aspects) ⓘ fault tolerance in distributed systems ⓘ synchronization ⓘ theory of distributed computing ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| fullName | International Symposium on Distributed Computing ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | DISC ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
invited talks
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keynote lectures ⓘ poster sessions ⓘ technical paper sessions ⓘ workshops (in some editions) ⓘ |
| hasProceedings | peer‑reviewed conference proceedings ⓘ |
| internationalScope | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizedBy | community of researchers in distributed computing ⓘ |
| publishes |
brief announcements
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regular papers ⓘ research papers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
OPODIS
ⓘ
PODC ⓘ
linked to:
ACM PODC
SODA (for algorithms community overlap) ⓘ
linked to:
ACM SODA
|
| reviewProcess | peer review ⓘ |
| scope | research in distributed computing and related areas of computer science ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
novelty
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relevance to distributed computing ⓘ scientific quality ⓘ technical depth ⓘ |
| sponsors | various academic and research institutions (depending on year) ⓘ |
| typicalSubmissionType | original research papers ⓘ |
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: DISC Description of subject: DISC is a leading international conference focused on research in distributed computing and related areas of computer science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.