Jobs
E7927
Jobs is the surname of Steve Jobs, the influential co-founder and longtime leader of Apple Inc.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jobs canonical | 21 |
| Jobs family | 2 |
| Jobs (surname) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93235 — 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: Jobs Context triple: [Steve Jobs, familyName, Jobs]
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A.
CAREER
CAREER is a prestigious National Science Foundation program that supports early-career faculty in building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in research and education.
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B.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional networking platform and social media service focused on careers, business connections, and job opportunities.
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C.
Ed
Ed is a common masculine given name, typically used as a short form of names such as Edward, Edwin, or Edmund.
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D.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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E.
Home Office
The Home Office is a major UK government department responsible for immigration, security, and law and order, including policing and counter-terrorism.
- 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: Jobs Target entity description: Jobs is the surname of Steve Jobs, the influential co-founder and longtime leader of Apple Inc.
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A.
CAREER
CAREER is a prestigious National Science Foundation program that supports early-career faculty in building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in research and education.
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B.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional networking platform and social media service focused on careers, business connections, and job opportunities.
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C.
Ed
Ed is a common masculine given name, typically used as a short form of names such as Edward, Edwin, or Edmund.
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D.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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E.
Home Office
The Home Office is a major UK government department responsible for immigration, security, and law and order, including policing and counter-terrorism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedFieldThroughBearers |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
media and publishing ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| capitalization | Jobs ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames from given names ⓘ |
| etymologyStatus | disputed or unclear ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Silicon Valley (via Steve Jobs)
ⓘ
linked to:
Silicon Valley
innovation in personal computing (via Steve Jobs) ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Eve Jobs
ⓘ
Laurene Powell Jobs ⓘ Lisa Brennan-Jobs ⓘ Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | Jobses ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Job
ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Job
Jobbs ⓘ
linked to:
Jobes
Jobes ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| namePosition | last name ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Jobs family
ⓘ
linked to:
Jobs
|
| onWikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_(surname) ⓘ |
| orthographicProperty |
beginsWithCapitalJ
ⓘ
endsWithLetterS ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| semanticRelation | homographOf "jobs" (plural of job) ⓘ |
| sharesFormWith | jobs (common noun meaning employment positions) ⓘ |
| usedByPerson |
Clara Jobs
ⓘ
Erin Siena Jobs ⓘ
linked to:
Erin Jobs
Eve Jobs ⓘ Laurene Powell Jobs ⓘ Lisa Brennan-Jobs ⓘ Paul Jobs ⓘ Reed Jobs ⓘ Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguageCommunity | English-speaking world ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Jobs Description of subject: Jobs is the surname of Steve Jobs, the influential co-founder and longtime leader of Apple Inc.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.