Lawrence Rosen
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Lawrence Rosen is an American attorney and open source advocate known for his influential work on software licensing, including drafting widely used open source licenses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lawrence Rosen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6790505 — 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: Lawrence Rosen Context triple: [Open Software License 3.0, author, Lawrence Rosen]
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A.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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B.
Ian Kahn
Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
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C.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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D.
David Kessler
David Kessler is the ill-fated American tourist who becomes a werewolf after a brutal attack in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London."
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E.
Aaron Kandell
Aaron Kandell is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney's animated feature film "Moana."
- 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: Lawrence Rosen Target entity description: Lawrence Rosen is an American attorney and open source advocate known for his influential work on software licensing, including drafting widely used open source licenses.
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A.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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B.
Ian Kahn
Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
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C.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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D.
David Kessler
David Kessler is the ill-fated American tourist who becomes a werewolf after a brutal attack in the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London."
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E.
Aaron Kandell
Aaron Kandell is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney's animated feature film "Moana."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attorney
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human ⓘ legal author ⓘ open source advocate ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | global open source community ⓘ |
| authorOf | Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer law
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open source software ⓘ software licensing ⓘ |
| hasRole |
counsel to open source projects
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open source legal advisor ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
copyleft and permissive licenses
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copyright law ⓘ intellectual property law ⓘ open source license compatibility ⓘ software patents ⓘ |
| knownFor |
open source legal advocacy
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open source license drafting ⓘ software freedom legal issues ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty |
intellectual property in software
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open source licensing ⓘ technology law ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Rosen Law open source licensing interpretations ⓘ |
| notableWork | Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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computer law attorney ⓘ open source licensing consultant ⓘ |
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: Lawrence Rosen Description of subject: Lawrence Rosen is an American attorney and open source advocate known for his influential work on software licensing, including drafting widely used open source licenses.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.