Paul E. Jacobs
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Paul E. Jacobs is an American engineer and business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, a leading wireless technology company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul E. Jacobs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6431123 — 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: Paul E. Jacobs Context triple: [Irwin M. Jacobs, hasChild, Paul E. Jacobs]
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A.
John Jacobs
John Jacobs is a film and television producer known for developing and overseeing a variety of Hollywood projects.
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B.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
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C.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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D.
Frank Jacobs
Frank Jacobs was a prominent American humorist and satirist best known for his prolific, pun-filled song parodies and articles in Mad magazine.
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E.
Jerry L. Ross
Jerry L. Ross is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut renowned for holding a record number of Space Shuttle flights and spacewalks during the construction of the International Space Station.
- 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: Paul E. Jacobs Target entity description: Paul E. Jacobs is an American engineer and business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, a leading wireless technology company.
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A.
John Jacobs
John Jacobs is a film and television producer known for developing and overseeing a variety of Hollywood projects.
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B.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
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C.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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D.
Frank Jacobs
Frank Jacobs was a prominent American humorist and satirist best known for his prolific, pun-filled song parodies and articles in Mad magazine.
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E.
Jerry L. Ross
Jerry L. Ross is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut renowned for holding a record number of Space Shuttle flights and spacewalks during the construction of the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering ⓘ Master of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
CDMA technology
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mobile broadband ⓘ smartphone ecosystem development ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Qualcomm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessSector |
semiconductor industry
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technology ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Qualcomm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mobile telecommunications
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semiconductors ⓘ wireless communications ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
mobile communications
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wireless technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being CEO of Qualcomm
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being chairman of Qualcomm ⓘ leadership in mobile technology innovation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul E. Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expansion of Qualcomm’s mobile technology business
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leadership in wireless technology industry ⓘ |
| notableRole | promoting CDMA-based technologies ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Qualcomm ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| parent | Irwin M. Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Qualcomm
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Chief Executive Officer of Qualcomm ⓘ Executive Chairman of Qualcomm ⓘ |
| relative | Irwin M. Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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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: Paul E. Jacobs Description of subject: Paul E. Jacobs is an American engineer and business executive best known for serving as CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, a leading wireless technology company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.