Moglen
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family name
free software advocate
human
law professor
legal scholar
open-source software advocate
surname
Moglen is the surname of Eben Moglen, a prominent legal scholar and advocate for free and open-source software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moglen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12898974 — 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: Moglen Context triple: [Eben Moglen, familyName, Moglen]
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A.
Lundie
Lundie is a small rural settlement in Angus, Scotland, situated near the Sidlaw Hills and known for its scenic countryside setting.
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B.
Nesslau
Nesslau is a municipality in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, known for its alpine landscape and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Leyhof
Leyhof is a residential neighborhood in the Dutch town of Leiderdorp, located in the province of South Holland.
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D.
Hoefnagel
Hoefnagel is a Dutch-origin surname associated with a notable family name.
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E.
Lockweiler
Lockweiler is a village-level district within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
- 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: Moglen Target entity description: Moglen is the surname of Eben Moglen, a prominent legal scholar and advocate for free and open-source software.
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A.
Lundie
Lundie is a small rural settlement in Angus, Scotland, situated near the Sidlaw Hills and known for its scenic countryside setting.
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B.
Nesslau
Nesslau is a municipality in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, known for its alpine landscape and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Leyhof
Leyhof is a residential neighborhood in the Dutch town of Leiderdorp, located in the province of South Holland.
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D.
Hoefnagel
Hoefnagel is a Dutch-origin surname associated with a notable family name.
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E.
Lockweiler
Lockweiler is a village-level district within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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free software advocate ⓘ human ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ open-source software advocate ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
access to source code
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protection of software users’ rights ⓘ user freedom in computing ⓘ |
| familyName | Moglen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties in the digital age
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intellectual property law ⓘ law ⓘ technology law ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalksOn |
digital civil liberties
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free software ⓘ open-source licensing ⓘ privacy and surveillance ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Eben Moglen ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of free software
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advocacy of open-source software ⓘ work on software freedom and digital rights ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | involvement in free and open-source software legal issues ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of law ⓘ |
| supports | copyleft licensing principles ⓘ |
| usedBy | Eben Moglen ⓘ |
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: Moglen Description of subject: Moglen is the surname of Eben Moglen, a prominent legal scholar and advocate for free and open-source software.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Moglen