Jack Goldsmith
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Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor known for his work on national security law, cyber law, and the limits of executive power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Goldsmith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T482626 — 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 Goldsmith Context triple: [Tim Wu, coAuthorWith, Jack Goldsmith]
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A.
Lawrence Weingarten
Lawrence Weingarten was an American film producer best known for his work at MGM during Hollywood’s classic studio era, overseeing numerous popular comedies and dramas.
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B.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
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C.
Cass Sunstein
Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law professor known for his influential work on constitutional law, behavioral economics, and public policy, including the concept of "nudge."
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D.
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh is a prominent American legal scholar and former U.S. State Department legal adviser known for his work in international law and human rights.
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E.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- 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 Goldsmith Target entity description: Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor known for his work on national security law, cyber law, and the limits of executive power.
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A.
Lawrence Weingarten
Lawrence Weingarten was an American film producer best known for his work at MGM during Hollywood’s classic studio era, overseeing numerous popular comedies and dramas.
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B.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
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C.
Cass Sunstein
Cass Sunstein is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law professor known for his influential work on constitutional law, behavioral economics, and public policy, including the concept of "nudge."
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D.
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh is a prominent American legal scholar and former U.S. State Department legal adviser known for his work in international law and human rights.
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E.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
law
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legal studies ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
U.S. national security policy debates
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United States legal academia ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oxford University
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linked to:
University of Oxford
Washington and Lee University ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Law School
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Goldsmith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
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cyber law ⓘ executive power ⓘ international law ⓘ national security law ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction legal scholarship ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
U.S. foreign relations law
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internet governance ⓘ presidential power ⓘ separation of powers ⓘ surveillance and privacy ⓘ war powers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Harvard Law School faculty
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linked to:
Harvard Law School
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| name | Jack Goldsmith ⓘ |
| notableFor |
scholarship on limits of executive power
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work on cyber law ⓘ work on national security law ⓘ |
| notableWork | scholarship on national security and the law ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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legal scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor at Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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 Goldsmith Description of subject: Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor known for his work on national security law, cyber law, and the limits of executive power.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.