Jakobson
E530421
Jakobson is a surname most prominently associated with Roman Jakobson, a pioneering linguist and literary theorist known for his work in structuralism and communication theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jakobson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5540225 — 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: Jakobson Context triple: [Roman Jakobson, familyName, Jakobson]
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A.
Jacobsen
Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
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B.
Joffe
Joffe is a surname most notably associated with Adolf Joffe, a prominent early 20th-century Russian revolutionary and diplomat.
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C.
Niklaus
Niklaus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth.
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D.
Ossip
Ossip is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by pianist and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
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E.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
- 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: Jakobson Target entity description: Jakobson is a surname most prominently associated with Roman Jakobson, a pioneering linguist and literary theorist known for his work in structuralism and communication theory.
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A.
Jacobsen
Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
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B.
Joffe
Joffe is a surname most notably associated with Adolf Joffe, a prominent early 20th-century Russian revolutionary and diplomat.
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C.
Niklaus
Niklaus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth.
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D.
Ossip
Ossip is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by pianist and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
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E.
Abelson
Abelson is a surname most notably associated with Hal Abelson, an American computer scientist and educator known for his work on the Scheme programming language and the textbook "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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linguist ⓘ literary theorist ⓘ structuralist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| academicEmployer |
Columbia University
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Prague Linguistic Circle
NERFINISHED
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Russian Formalist movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of structuralism in the humanities
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modern communication models in linguistics ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Jakob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Slavic studies
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communication theory ⓘ linguistics ⓘ poetics ⓘ semiotics ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Roman Jakobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Claude Lévi-Strauss
NERFINISHED
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Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Barthes NERFINISHED ⓘ literary theory ⓘ structural linguistics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ferdinand de Saussure
NERFINISHED
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Russian Formalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
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Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Jakob ⓘ |
| movement | structuralism ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Jakobson model of communication
NERFINISHED
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binary oppositions in phonology ⓘ distinctive features in phonology ⓘ poetic function of language ⓘ six functions of language ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fundamentals of Language
NERFINISHED
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Language in Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Selected Writings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specialization |
Slavic linguistics
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phonology ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
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: Jakobson Description of subject: Jakobson is a surname most prominently associated with Roman Jakobson, a pioneering linguist and literary theorist known for his work in structuralism and communication theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.