GPS
E917389
GPS is an early artificial intelligence program developed in the late 1950s to model human problem-solving by systematically searching for solutions in a defined problem space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GPS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11311021 — 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: GPS Context triple: [General Problem Solver, alsoKnownAs, GPS]
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A.
GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system that provides precise location and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
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B.
GPS
GPS is the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on research and education in Earth and planetary sciences.
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C.
GPS
GPS is a professional school at the University of California San Diego specializing in international affairs, public policy, and global strategy.
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D.
Differential GPS
Differential GPS is an enhanced positioning system that improves the accuracy of standard GPS signals by using ground-based reference stations to correct signal errors.
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E.
GLONASS
GLONASS is Russia’s global satellite navigation system, providing worldwide positioning and timing services as an alternative to GPS.
- 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: GPS Target entity description: GPS is an early artificial intelligence program developed in the late 1950s to model human problem-solving by systematically searching for solutions in a defined problem space.
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A.
GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigation system that provides precise location and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
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B.
GPS
GPS is the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on research and education in Earth and planetary sciences.
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C.
GPS
GPS is a professional school at the University of California San Diego specializing in international affairs, public policy, and global strategy.
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D.
Differential GPS
Differential GPS is an enhanced positioning system that improves the accuracy of standard GPS signals by using ground-based reference stations to correct signal errors.
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E.
GLONASS
GLONASS is Russia’s global satellite navigation system, providing worldwide positioning and timing services as an alternative to GPS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence program
ⓘ
computer program ⓘ symbolic AI system ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | General Problem Solver ⓘ |
| aim |
model human problem solving
ⓘ
solve general classes of problems ⓘ |
| approach | symbolic information processing ⓘ |
| basedOn | means-ends analysis ⓘ |
| category |
cognitive simulation program
ⓘ
heuristic problem solver ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
difference reduction
ⓘ
problem space ⓘ subgoaling ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedIn | Newell and Simon’s work on human problem solving ⓘ |
| designGoal | general problem solver ⓘ |
| developer |
Allen Newell
ⓘ
Herbert A. Simon ⓘ
linked to:
Herbert Simon
J. C. Shaw ⓘ |
| developerOrganization |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
RAND Corporation ⓘ |
| developmentPeriod | late 1950s ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
cognitive science ⓘ |
| fullName | General Problem Solver ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early AI era ⓘ |
| inception | 1957 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Soar cognitive architecture
ⓘ
problem-space theory in cognitive psychology ⓘ production system models of cognition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Logic Theorist
ⓘ
linked to:
the Logic Theorist program
|
| language | list-processing language ⓘ |
| limitation |
effective only on well-structured problems
ⓘ
requires formal problem representation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early general-purpose AI problem solver
ⓘ
explicit modeling of human problem-solving strategies ⓘ |
| paradigm | classical AI ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | physical symbol system hypothesis ⓘ |
| represents | problems as states and operators ⓘ |
| testedOn |
cryptarithmetic problems
ⓘ
logic puzzles ⓘ theorem proving tasks ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
heuristic search
ⓘ
means-ends analysis ⓘ problem space search ⓘ |
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: GPS Description of subject: GPS is an early artificial intelligence program developed in the late 1950s to model human problem-solving by systematically searching for solutions in a defined problem space.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.