Society of Women Engineers
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The Society of Women Engineers is a professional organization dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and advancing women in engineering and technology fields through networking, education, and outreach.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Society of Women Engineers canonical | 5 |
| Society of Women Engineers student chapter (University of Maine) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6056327 — 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: Society of Women Engineers Context triple: [Yvonne C. Brill, memberOf, Society of Women Engineers]
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A.
IEEE Women in Engineering
IEEE Women in Engineering is a global network within IEEE dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists and inspiring girls worldwide to pursue careers in engineering and technology.
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B.
National Society of Professional Engineers
The National Society of Professional Engineers is a U.S. professional organization that advocates for licensed professional engineers, promotes engineering ethics and standards, and supports the engineering profession through education and public policy.
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C.
American Association of Engineering Societies
The American Association of Engineering Societies is an umbrella organization that represents and coordinates multiple U.S. engineering societies to advance the engineering profession and its contributions to society.
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D.
Council of Engineering Institutions
The Council of Engineering Institutions was a former UK umbrella body that coordinated and represented the professional engineering institutions before being succeeded by later organizations.
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E.
Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
The Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award is the organization’s highest honor, recognizing a woman engineer for outstanding technical contributions and professional excellence in engineering.
- 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: Society of Women Engineers Target entity description: The Society of Women Engineers is a professional organization dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and advancing women in engineering and technology fields through networking, education, and outreach.
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A.
IEEE Women in Engineering
IEEE Women in Engineering is a global network within IEEE dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists and inspiring girls worldwide to pursue careers in engineering and technology.
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B.
National Society of Professional Engineers
The National Society of Professional Engineers is a U.S. professional organization that advocates for licensed professional engineers, promotes engineering ethics and standards, and supports the engineering profession through education and public policy.
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C.
American Association of Engineering Societies
The American Association of Engineering Societies is an umbrella organization that represents and coordinates multiple U.S. engineering societies to advance the engineering profession and its contributions to society.
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D.
Council of Engineering Institutions
The Council of Engineering Institutions was a former UK umbrella body that coordinated and represented the professional engineering institutions before being succeeded by later organizations.
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E.
Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
The Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award is the organization’s highest honor, recognizing a woman engineer for outstanding technical contributions and professional excellence in engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
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professional association ⓘ women's organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SWE ⓘ |
| activity |
conferences
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mentoring programs ⓘ networking events ⓘ outreach to students ⓘ professional development programs ⓘ scholarship programs ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
STEM
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engineering ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| focus |
K–12 outreach in STEM
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collegiate support for women in engineering ⓘ professional development for women engineers ⓘ public policy advocacy on issues affecting women in STEM ⓘ women in engineering ⓘ |
| founded | 1950 ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fullName | Society of Women Engineers ⓘ |
| goal |
increase representation of women in engineering
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inspire girls to pursue STEM education ⓘ support retention of women in engineering careers ⓘ |
| hasSection |
collegiate sections
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professional sections ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| legalStatus | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| membershipPolicy | open to all genders ⓘ |
| membershipType |
collegiate members
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individual members ⓘ professional members ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
WE Annual Conference
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annual SWE conference ⓘ |
| offers |
career resources for women engineers
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leadership training for women in STEM ⓘ scholarships for women in engineering and technology ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| purpose |
advance women in engineering and technology fields
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advocate for women engineers ⓘ promote diversity and inclusion in engineering ⓘ support women in engineering and technology ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ global ⓘ |
| website | https://swe.org ⓘ |
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: Society of Women Engineers Description of subject: The Society of Women Engineers is a professional organization dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and advancing women in engineering and technology fields through networking, education, and outreach.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
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associatedOrganization
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Society of Women Engineers
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Department of Mechanical Engineering (University of Maine)
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hasStudentOrganization
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Society of Women Engineers student chapter (University of Maine)
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linked to: Society of Women Engineers