James Boyle
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James Boyle is a legal scholar best known for his work on intellectual property, the public domain, and the cultural and political implications of copyright law.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Boyle canonical | 6 |
| James Boyle (legal scholar) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1218318 — 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: James Boyle Context triple: [Duke University School of Law, hasNotableFaculty, James Boyle]
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A.
John Lane
John Lane is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Jeff Gitelman
Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
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C.
David A. Black
David A. Black is a Ruby programmer, author, and educator best known for his influential books and contributions to the Ruby community.
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D.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
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E.
David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
- 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: James Boyle Target entity description: James Boyle is a legal scholar best known for his work on intellectual property, the public domain, and the cultural and political implications of copyright law.
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A.
John Lane
John Lane is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions, including politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Jeff Gitelman
Jeff Gitelman is a Grammy-nominated guitarist, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with major artists across R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
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C.
David A. Black
David A. Black is a Ruby programmer, author, and educator best known for his influential books and contributions to the Ruby community.
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D.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
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E.
David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
author ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Duke University Distinguished Teaching Award ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Center for the Study of the Public Domain
ⓘ
Creative Commons ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
ⓘ
University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| employer | Duke University School of Law ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
copyright law
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cultural theory of copyright ⓘ information law ⓘ intellectual property law ⓘ law and technology ⓘ political implications of copyright ⓘ public domain ⓘ |
| genre |
legal scholarship
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAcademicTitle | William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law ⓘ |
| hasRole |
copyright reform advocate
ⓘ
legal theorist ⓘ public domain advocate ⓘ |
| hasWebsite |
https://law.duke.edu/fac/boyle
ⓘ
https://www.thepublicdomain.org ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
critical legal studies
ⓘ
cultural studies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Creative Commons board of directors
ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons
|
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
cultural environmentalism
ⓘ
information environmentalism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain
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Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond ⓘ Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society ⓘ The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind ⓘ Theft: A History of Music ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of law ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
commons-based approaches to information
ⓘ
creative commons ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons
digital rights ⓘ open access ⓘ |
| workLocation | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
enclosure of the information commons
ⓘ
history of copyright ⓘ intellectual property and democracy ⓘ intersection of law and culture ⓘ public domain as a cultural commons ⓘ |
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: James Boyle Description of subject: James Boyle is a legal scholar best known for his work on intellectual property, the public domain, and the cultural and political implications of copyright law.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Boyle