Hal Jacobs
E591813
Hal Jacobs is one of the children of Irwin M. Jacobs, the American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hal Jacobs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6431125 — 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: Hal Jacobs Context triple: [Irwin M. Jacobs, hasChild, Hal Jacobs]
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A.
Louis Garfinkle
Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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D.
Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for his pioneering electric violin work in jazz-rock and progressive rock, including his influential role in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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E.
Benny Rothman
Benny Rothman was a British political activist and ramblers’ leader best known for spearheading early 20th-century access-to-the-countryside campaigns in England.
- 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: Hal Jacobs Target entity description: Hal Jacobs is one of the children of Irwin M. Jacobs, the American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm.
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A.
Louis Garfinkle
Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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D.
Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for his pioneering electric violin work in jazz-rock and progressive rock, including his influential role in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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E.
Benny Rothman
Benny Rothman was a British political activist and ramblers’ leader best known for spearheading early 20th-century access-to-the-countryside campaigns in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
technology company ⓘ |
| child | Hal Jacobs ⓘ |
| childOf | Irwin M. Jacobs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | Qualcomm ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Hal Jacobs Description of subject: Hal Jacobs is one of the children of Irwin M. Jacobs, the American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hal Jacobs