Henry Jacoby
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Henry Jacoby is an American economist and climate policy expert known for his work on energy and environmental economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
All labels observed (1)
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| Henry Jacoby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T123907 — 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: Henry Jacoby Context triple: [Institute Professor at MIT, hasNotableHolder, Henry Jacoby]
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A.
Henry Alsberg
Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
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B.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
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C.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is the son of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known primarily for his connection to the famed "father of the atomic bomb."
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E.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
- 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: Henry Jacoby Target entity description: Henry Jacoby is an American economist and climate policy expert known for his work on energy and environmental economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A.
Henry Alsberg
Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
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B.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
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C.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is the son of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known primarily for his connection to the famed "father of the atomic bomb."
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E.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
American academic
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climate policy expert ⓘ economist ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
climate policy
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economics ⓘ energy economics ⓘ environmental economics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of climate policy
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research on energy and environmental economics ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Henry Jacoby Description of subject: Henry Jacoby is an American economist and climate policy expert known for his work on energy and environmental economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.