Paul Jobs
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Paul Jobs was the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and a machinist and mechanic who strongly influenced Steve’s early interest in electronics and craftsmanship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Jobs canonical | 6 |
| Clara Jobs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93267 — 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: Paul Jobs Context triple: [Steve Jobs, adoptiveFather, Paul Jobs]
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A.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., widely recognized for revolutionizing personal computing, smartphones, digital music, and animated films.
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B.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
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C.
Erin Jobs
Erin Jobs is one of Steve Jobs’s daughters, known primarily for her connection to the Apple co-founder and her largely private life outside the public spotlight.
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D.
Eve Jobs
Eve Jobs is an American equestrian and fashion model, best known as the youngest daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
John Warnock
John Warnock was an American computer scientist and co-founder of Adobe Systems, best known for pioneering the PostScript language and the PDF file format.
- 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: Paul Jobs Target entity description: Paul Jobs was the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and a machinist and mechanic who strongly influenced Steve’s early interest in electronics and craftsmanship.
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A.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., widely recognized for revolutionizing personal computing, smartphones, digital music, and animated films.
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B.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
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C.
Erin Jobs
Erin Jobs is one of Steve Jobs’s daughters, known primarily for her connection to the Apple co-founder and her largely private life outside the public spotlight.
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D.
Eve Jobs
Eve Jobs is an American equestrian and fashion model, best known as the youngest daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
John Warnock
John Warnock was an American computer scientist and co-founder of Adobe Systems, best known for pioneering the PostScript language and the PDF file format.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adoptive father
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human ⓘ machinist ⓘ mechanic ⓘ |
| adoptiveChild | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| adoptiveFather | Paul Jobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jobs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
automotive repair
ⓘ
machining ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasRole | parent ⓘ |
| influenced | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | Santa Clara Valley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the adoptive father of Steve Jobs
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influencing Steve Jobs’s interest in craftsmanship ⓘ influencing Steve Jobs’s interest in electronics ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Clara Jobs
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Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| occupation |
machinist
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mechanic ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Altos, California, United States
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surface form:
Los Altos, California
Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain View, California
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Clara Jobs
ⓘ
Paul Jobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Paul Jobs Description of subject: Paul Jobs was the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and a machinist and mechanic who strongly influenced Steve’s early interest in electronics and craftsmanship.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clara Jobs
subject surface form:
Jobs (2013 film)
subject surface form:
Steve Jobs
subject surface form:
Steven Paul Jobs