Irwin M. Jacobs
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Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irwin M. Jacobs canonical | 16 |
| Irwin Mark Jacobs | 6 |
| Irwin Jacobs | 4 |
| Qualcomm (through Irwin M. Jacobs) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1091571 — 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: Irwin M. Jacobs Context triple: [IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, hasRecipient, Irwin M. Jacobs]
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Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is an American engineer and technology executive who serves as the CEO of Intel and is known for leading the company’s strategic and manufacturing turnaround efforts.
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D.
Thomas Siebel
Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
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John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academic leader, former president of Stanford University, and a pioneer in RISC processor architecture.
- 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: Irwin M. Jacobs Target entity description: Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
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A.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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B.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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C.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is an American engineer and technology executive who serves as the CEO of Intel and is known for leading the company’s strategic and manufacturing turnaround efforts.
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D.
Thomas Siebel
Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
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E.
John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academic leader, former president of Stanford University, and a pioneer in RISC processor architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Irwin M. Jacobs Description of subject: Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
Referenced by (27)
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Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego
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