Jacob Marschak
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Jacob Marschak was a prominent 20th-century economist known for his pioneering work in decision theory, econometrics, and the theory of the firm.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Marschak canonical | 1 |
| Marschak | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909274 — 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: Jacob Marschak Context triple: [Jacob Marschak Lecture, namedAfter, Jacob Marschak]
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A.
David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
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B.
Benjamin Rapoport
Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
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C.
Felix Bernstein
Felix Bernstein was a German mathematician known for his work in set theory and contributions to the foundations of mathematics.
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Fritz Bernstein
Fritz Bernstein was a Zionist economist and Israeli politician who served as a member of Israel’s pre-state legislature and later as Minister of Trade and Industry.
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E.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
- 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: Jacob Marschak Target entity description: Jacob Marschak was a prominent 20th-century economist known for his pioneering work in decision theory, econometrics, and the theory of the firm.
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A.
David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
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B.
Benjamin Rapoport
Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
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C.
Felix Bernstein
Felix Bernstein was a German mathematician known for his work in set theory and contributions to the foundations of mathematics.
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D.
Fritz Bernstein
Fritz Bernstein was a Zionist economist and Israeli politician who served as a member of Israel’s pre-state legislature and later as Minister of Trade and Industry.
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E.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Jacob Marschak Description of subject: Jacob Marschak was a prominent 20th-century economist known for his pioneering work in decision theory, econometrics, and the theory of the firm.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marschak