Jack Keil Wolf
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Jack Keil Wolf was a prominent American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, data storage, and communications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Keil Wolf canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7000534 — 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: Jack Keil Wolf Context triple: [IEEE Information Theory Society Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award, namedAfter, Jack Keil Wolf]
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A.
Kerry Wolf
Kerry Wolf is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Wolf, though specific widely known public details about them are not readily available.
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B.
Michael Krieger
Michael Krieger is a fictional character appearing in the story of "Watch Over Me."
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C.
Ken Koblun
Ken Koblun is a Canadian bassist best known for his early involvement with the influential 1960s rock band Buffalo Springfield.
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D.
Berny Wolf
Berny Wolf was an American animator, director, and producer known for his long career at major studios like Disney and Hanna-Barbera, contributing to classic animated films and television series.
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E.
Jeff Fager
Jeff Fager is an American television producer best known for leading and shaping the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
- 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: Jack Keil Wolf Target entity description: Jack Keil Wolf was a prominent American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, data storage, and communications.
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A.
Kerry Wolf
Kerry Wolf is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Wolf, though specific widely known public details about them are not readily available.
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B.
Michael Krieger
Michael Krieger is a fictional character appearing in the story of "Watch Over Me."
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C.
Ken Koblun
Ken Koblun is a Canadian bassist best known for his early involvement with the influential 1960s rock band Buffalo Springfield.
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D.
Berny Wolf
Berny Wolf was an American animator, director, and producer known for his long career at major studios like Disney and Hanna-Barbera, contributing to classic animated films and television series.
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E.
Jeff Fager
Jeff Fager is an American television producer best known for leading and shaping the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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electrical engineer ⓘ information theorist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
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M.S. in Electrical Engineering ⓘ Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering ⓘ |
| affiliation | IEEE Information Theory Society ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Princeton University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Claude E. Shannon Award
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IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation ⓘ IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award ⓘ IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1935-03-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Philadelphia
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| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2011-05-12 ⓘ |
| employer |
Bell Laboratories
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linked to:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Qualcomm ⓘ University of California, San Diego ⓘ |
| familyName | Wolf ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
coding theory
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data storage ⓘ digital communications ⓘ information theory ⓘ |
| fullName | Jack Keil Wolf ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | IEEE Fellow ⓘ |
| influenced |
design of error-correcting codes for communication and storage
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modern data storage technologies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to coding theory
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contributions to communication theory ⓘ contributions to data storage systems ⓘ |
| memberOf |
IEEE
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National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Alexander Vardy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Consultant at Qualcomm
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego ⓘ Researcher at Bell Laboratories ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
data compression
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digital communication systems ⓘ error-correcting codes ⓘ magnetic recording ⓘ |
| workInstitution |
Center for Magnetic Recording Research, UC San Diego
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego ⓘ |
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: Jack Keil Wolf Description of subject: Jack Keil Wolf was a prominent American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, data storage, and communications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
IEEE Information Theory Society Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
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namedAfter
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Jack Keil Wolf
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