J. C. Shaw implemented the program
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artificial intelligence program
computer program
computer scientist
pioneer in artificial intelligence
J. C. Shaw was a pioneering computer scientist known for his work in early artificial intelligence, including implementing the Logic Theorist program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. C. Shaw implemented the program canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10602417 — 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: J. C. Shaw implemented the program Context triple: [Logic Theorist, developersRole, J. C. Shaw implemented the program]
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw was a British-born actor and film and television producer best known as the longtime husband and producing partner of Angela Lansbury.
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C.
James Shaw Jr.
James Shaw Jr. is an American man widely recognized as the "Waffle House hero" for disarming a gunman during a 2018 mass shooting in Tennessee, preventing further loss of life.
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D.
John Shaw Jr.
John Shaw Jr. was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on prominent institutional and collegiate buildings in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Anthony Pullen Shaw
Anthony Pullen Shaw is a British actor and television director, best known for directing numerous episodes of the series "Murder, She Wrote."
- 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: J. C. Shaw implemented the program Target entity description: J. C. Shaw was a pioneering computer scientist known for his work in early artificial intelligence, including implementing the Logic Theorist program.
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A.
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw is an American professional baseball player and power-hitting outfielder/first baseman who played college baseball at Boston College before reaching Major League Baseball.
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B.
Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw was a British-born actor and film and television producer best known as the longtime husband and producing partner of Angela Lansbury.
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C.
James Shaw Jr.
James Shaw Jr. is an American man widely recognized as the "Waffle House hero" for disarming a gunman during a 2018 mass shooting in Tennessee, preventing further loss of life.
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D.
John Shaw Jr.
John Shaw Jr. was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on prominent institutional and collegiate buildings in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Anthony Pullen Shaw
Anthony Pullen Shaw is a British actor and television director, best known for directing numerous episodes of the series "Murder, She Wrote."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence program
ⓘ
computer program ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ pioneer in artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| associatedWith | early AI research at RAND Corporation ⓘ |
| basedOn |
principia mathematica
ⓘ
linked to:
Principia Mathematica
|
| collaboratedWith |
Allen Newell
ⓘ
Herbert A. Simon ⓘ
linked to:
Herbert Simon
|
| contributedTo | early AI programming techniques ⓘ |
| developedAt | RAND Corporation ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Allen Newell
ⓘ
Herbert A. Simon ⓘ
linked to:
Herbert Simon
J. C. Shaw ⓘ |
| employer | RAND Corporation ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
artificial intelligence ⓘ computer science ⓘ |
| fullName | John Clifford Shaw ⓘ |
| implemented |
Logic Theorist
ⓘ
linked to:
the Logic Theorist program
|
| implementedBy | J. C. Shaw ⓘ |
| knownFor |
implementing the Logic Theorist program
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work in early artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAs | one of the first AI programs ⓘ |
| purpose | proving theorems in symbolic logic ⓘ |
| workedOn |
heuristic search methods
ⓘ
symbolic computation ⓘ |
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: J. C. Shaw implemented the program Description of subject: J. C. Shaw was a pioneering computer scientist known for his work in early artificial intelligence, including implementing the Logic Theorist program.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Logic Theorist program