Jack Balkin
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Jack Balkin is an American legal scholar and Yale Law School professor known for his influential work on constitutional theory, free speech, and the impact of digital technology on law and society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Balkin canonical | 2 |
| Jack M. Balkin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7886018 — 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 Balkin Context triple: [Information Society Project, foundedBy, Jack Balkin]
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A.
Christopher L. Eisgruber
Christopher L. Eisgruber is an American legal scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Princeton University.
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B.
Geoffrey R. Stone
Geoffrey R. Stone is an American legal scholar renowned for his work on constitutional law and the First Amendment, and for his long association with the University of Chicago.
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C.
Stephen E. Rivkin
Stephen E. Rivkin is an American film editor best known for his work on major feature films including the "Avatar" series.
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D.
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his influential work in law and economics, constitutional law, and classical liberal legal theory.
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E.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
- 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 Balkin Target entity description: Jack Balkin is an American legal scholar and Yale Law School professor known for his influential work on constitutional theory, free speech, and the impact of digital technology on law and society.
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A.
Christopher L. Eisgruber
Christopher L. Eisgruber is an American legal scholar and academic administrator who serves as the president of Princeton University.
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B.
Geoffrey R. Stone
Geoffrey R. Stone is an American legal scholar renowned for his work on constitutional law and the First Amendment, and for his long association with the University of Chicago.
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C.
Stephen E. Rivkin
Stephen E. Rivkin is an American film editor best known for his work on major feature films including the "Avatar" series.
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D.
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his influential work in law and economics, constitutional law, and classical liberal legal theory.
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E.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American academic
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constitutional law scholar ⓘ human ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Harvard College
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linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
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Harvard College ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Yale Law School
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Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Balkin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
First Amendment law
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constitutional law ⓘ constitutional theory ⓘ democratic theory ⓘ freedom of speech ⓘ information privacy ⓘ internet law ⓘ law and technology ⓘ legal theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Juris Doctor ⓘ PhD in philosophy ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Balkinization ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://balkin.blogspot.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of digital technology and democracy
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blogging on constitutional law and politics ⓘ scholarship on free speech ⓘ theory of living originalism ⓘ work on constitutional interpretation ⓘ work on the First Amendment and the internet ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name |
Jack M. Balkin
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linked to:
Jack Balkin
|
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Constitutional Redemption
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Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology ⓘ Living Originalism ⓘ |
| occupation |
legal scholar
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professor of law ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School
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founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
constitutional interpretation
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democratic constitutionalism ⓘ freedom of expression ⓘ platform regulation ⓘ surveillance and privacy ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Yale Law School ⓘ |
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 Balkin Description of subject: Jack Balkin is an American legal scholar and Yale Law School professor known for his influential work on constitutional theory, free speech, and the impact of digital technology on law and society.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jack Balkin