Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig is an American legal scholar and activist known for his work on copyright reform, internet freedom, and campaign finance, and as the founder of Creative Commons.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lawrence Lessig canonical | 11 |
| Lessig | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20328 — 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 Lessig Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Lawrence Lessig]
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A.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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B.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, technology activist, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.
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C.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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D.
Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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E.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
- 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 Lessig Target entity description: Lawrence Lessig is an American legal scholar and activist known for his work on copyright reform, internet freedom, and campaign finance, and as the founder of Creative Commons.
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A.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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B.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, technology activist, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.
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C.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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D.
Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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E.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
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author ⓘ human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
campaign finance reform in the United States
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government corruption reform ⓘ net neutrality ⓘ open licensing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Law School
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Stanford Law School ⓘ University of Chicago Law School ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lawrence Lessig
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lessig
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| fieldOfWork |
campaign finance reform
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constitutional law ⓘ copyright law ⓘ free culture movement ⓘ internet law ⓘ |
| founded | Creative Commons ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Arts ⓘ |
| hasRole |
director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University
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founding board member of Creative Commons ⓘ |
| knownFor |
campaign finance reform advocacy
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copyright reform advocacy ⓘ founding Creative Commons ⓘ internet freedom advocacy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| movement |
campaign finance reform movement
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free culture movement ⓘ open access movement ⓘ |
| name | Lawrence Lessig self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
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Free Culture ⓘ Republic, Lost ⓘ The Future of Ideas ⓘ |
| occupation |
law professor
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political activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Lessig Description of subject: Lawrence Lessig is an American legal scholar and activist known for his work on copyright reform, internet freedom, and campaign finance, and as the founder of Creative Commons.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lessig