Steve Jobs
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Jobs canonical | 184 |
| Steven Paul Jobs | 3 |
| Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs | 2 |
| Apple co-founder Steve Jobs | 1 |
| Steve Jobs (biography) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4629 — 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: Steve Jobs Context triple: [National Medal of Technology and Innovation, notableRecipientExample, Steve Jobs]
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A.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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B.
David Packard
David Packard was an American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, and influential philanthropist and public servant.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
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E.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
- 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: Steve Jobs Target entity description: 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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A.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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B.
David Packard
David Packard was an American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, and influential philanthropist and public servant.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
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E.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (82)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ |
| adoptiveFather | Paul Jobs ⓘ |
| adoptiveMother |
Paul Jobs
ⓘ
surface form:
Clara Jobs
|
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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surface form:
Grammy Trustees Award
Jefferson Award for Public Service ⓘ National Medal of Technology and Innovation ⓘ |
| biologicalFather | Abdulfattah Jandali ⓘ |
| biologicalMother | Joanne Schieble ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
ⓘ
respiratory arrest ⓘ |
| child |
Erin Jobs
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Eve Jobs ⓘ Lisa Brennan-Jobs ⓘ Reed Jobs ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Apple Inc.
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Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-02-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-10-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1991-03-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Homestead High School
ⓘ
Reed College ⓘ |
| employer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
NeXT Inc. ⓘ Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| familyName | Jobs ⓘ |
| founded | NeXT Inc. ⓘ |
| fullName |
Steve Jobs
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Steven Paul Jobs
|
| genreOfActivity |
animated film industry
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consumer electronics industry ⓘ digital music industry ⓘ personal computing industry ⓘ |
| givenName | Steven ⓘ |
| influenced |
digital music distribution
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personal computer industry ⓘ smartphone industry ⓘ user interface design ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhist philosophy
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calligraphy studies at Reed College ⓘ |
| knownFor |
iOS
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surface form:
App Store
Apple II personal computer ⓘ macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
Apple Macintosh computers ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh personal computer
NeXT Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
NeXTSTEP operating system
Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ
surface form:
Pixar computer-animated films
iMac ⓘ iPad ⓘ iPhone ⓘ iPod ⓘ iTunes Store ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
emphasis on design and user experience in technology products
ⓘ
integration of hardware and software in consumer devices ⓘ |
| notableRole |
CEO of Apple Inc.
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CEO of Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ chairman of Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ co-founder of Apple Inc. ⓘ co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ founder of NeXT Inc. ⓘ |
| notableWork | Apple Inc. corporate turnaround after 1997 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business magnate
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ industrial designer ⓘ inventor ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Palo Alto, California
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surface form:
Palo Alto, California, United States
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| positionHeld |
CEO of Apple Inc.
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CEO of Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ chairman of Apple Inc. ⓘ chairman of Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cupertino
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surface form:
Cupertino, California, United States
Palo Alto, California ⓘ
surface form:
Palo Alto, California, United States
|
| spouse | Laurene Powell Jobs ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
biographical film "Jobs" (2013)
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biographical film "Steve Jobs" (2015) ⓘ biography "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson ⓘ |
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: Steve Jobs Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (191)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jobs
subject surface form:
NeXT Inc.
subject surface form:
NeXTstation
subject surface form:
NeXTstation
this entity surface form:
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs
subject surface form:
Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs