John C. Schwab
E474560
John C. Schwab was an American economist and librarian best known for serving as the librarian of Yale University in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John C. Schwab canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4688395 — 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: John C. Schwab Context triple: [Schwab, hasNotableBearer, John C. Schwab]
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A.
Martin Schwab
Martin Schwab is a German actor known for his extensive work in theater, film, and television.
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B.
Charles R. Schwab
Charles R. Schwab is an American investor and businessman best known as the founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation, a pioneering discount brokerage firm.
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C.
Michael Schwab
Michael Schwab was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who became one of the convicted Haymarket Affair defendants in 1886.
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D.
Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab was a prominent American steel magnate and businessman who led Bethlehem Steel to become one of the largest steel producers in the world in the early 20th century.
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E.
Sidney Schwab
Sidney Schwab is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Schwab surname.
- 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: John C. Schwab Target entity description: John C. Schwab was an American economist and librarian best known for serving as the librarian of Yale University in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Martin Schwab
Martin Schwab is a German actor known for his extensive work in theater, film, and television.
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B.
Charles R. Schwab
Charles R. Schwab is an American investor and businessman best known as the founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation, a pioneering discount brokerage firm.
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C.
Michael Schwab
Michael Schwab was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who became one of the convicted Haymarket Affair defendants in 1886.
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D.
Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab was a prominent American steel magnate and businessman who led Bethlehem Steel to become one of the largest steel producers in the world in the early 20th century.
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E.
Sidney Schwab
Sidney Schwab is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Schwab surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
economist ⓘ human ⓘ librarian ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Yale University Library
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linked to:
Yale University Library system
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Schwab ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
ⓘ
library science ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yale University faculty ⓘ |
| name | John C. Schwab ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to economics
ⓘ
serving as librarian of Yale University ⓘ |
| notableRole |
early 20th century librarian of Yale University
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late 19th century librarian of Yale University ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
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librarian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| positionHeld | librarian of Yale University ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Yale University ⓘ |
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: John C. Schwab Description of subject: John C. Schwab was an American economist and librarian best known for serving as the librarian of Yale University in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.