IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
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The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a prestigious IEEE honor recognizing outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of consumer electronics technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T398253 — 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: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Context triple: [Linus Torvalds, notableAward, IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award]
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IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
The IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal is a prestigious IEEE technical field award recognizing outstanding contributions to materials science and device technologies in electronics and photonics.
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B.
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is a prestigious international award honoring individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the scientific and technological fields that underpin modern society.
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C.
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is a prestigious IEEE award honoring outstanding achievements and innovations in the field of signal processing.
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D.
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
The IEEE Simon Ramo Medal is a prestigious IEEE award recognizing exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.
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E.
Toppan Prize
The Toppan Prize is a prestigious academic award at Harvard University recognizing outstanding doctoral dissertations in the social sciences.
- 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: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Target entity description: The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a prestigious IEEE honor recognizing outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of consumer electronics technology.
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A.
IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
The IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal is a prestigious IEEE technical field award recognizing outstanding contributions to materials science and device technologies in electronics and photonics.
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B.
Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology is a prestigious international award honoring individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the scientific and technological fields that underpin modern society.
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C.
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is a prestigious IEEE award honoring outstanding achievements and innovations in the field of signal processing.
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D.
IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
The IEEE Simon Ramo Medal is a prestigious IEEE award recognizing exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.
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E.
Toppan Prize
The Toppan Prize is a prestigious academic award at Harvard University recognizing outstanding doctoral dissertations in the social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IEEE technical field award
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consumer electronics award ⓘ engineering award ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
IEEE Awards Board
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IEEE Consumer Technology Society ⓘ |
| associatedWith | IEEE Consumer Technology Society ⓘ |
| awardedFor |
leadership in the development of consumer electronics
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outstanding contributions to consumer electronics technology ⓘ pioneering contributions to the design or application of consumer electronics products ⓘ |
| awardIncludes |
bronze medal
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certificate ⓘ honorarium ⓘ |
| category | IEEE-level award ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| discipline |
engineering
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technology ⓘ |
| eligibility |
individuals
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teams ⓘ up to three persons ⓘ |
| field |
consumer electronics
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electrical engineering ⓘ electronics engineering ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1987 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasAwardLevel | international ⓘ |
| honors | Masaru Ibuka ⓘ |
| inception | 1987 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
IEEE Awards Board
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surface form:
IEEE Awards Program
|
| languageOfOfficialDocuments | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Masaru Ibuka ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation | co-founder of Sony ⓘ |
| organizationTypeOfPresenter | professional association ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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surface form:
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ⓘ |
| purpose |
to honor leadership in the field of consumer electronics
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to recognize outstanding contributions in consumer electronics technology ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| selectionBody | IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Committee ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | peer review ⓘ |
| shortDescription | IEEE award for outstanding contributions and leadership in consumer electronics technology ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Sony
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surface form:
Sony Corporation
|
| typicalRecipients |
engineers
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scientists ⓘ technologists ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ieee.org/awards ⓘ |
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: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Description of subject: The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award is a prestigious IEEE honor recognizing outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of consumer electronics technology.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Stephen Gary Wozniak
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Committee
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associatedWithAward
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IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
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