Jacobs
E21231
Jacobs is a surname most notably associated with Harriet Jacobs, the African-American writer and abolitionist who authored the influential slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacobs canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170762 — 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: Jacobs Context triple: [Harriet Jacobs, familyName, Jacobs]
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A.
Addison
Addison is a small, business-focused town in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its dense concentration of restaurants, corporate offices, and frequent special events.
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B.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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C.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- 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: Jacobs Target entity description: Jacobs is a surname most notably associated with Harriet Jacobs, the African-American writer and abolitionist who authored the influential slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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A.
Addison
Addison is a small, business-focused town in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its dense concentration of restaurants, corporate offices, and frequent special events.
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B.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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C.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abolitionist
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autobiography ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ slave narrative ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Harriet Jacobs ⓘ |
| category |
Dutch-language surnames
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English-language surnames ⓘ German-language surnames ⓘ patronymic surnames ⓘ surnames from given names ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jacobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Harriet Jacobs
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ⓘ
surface form:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (author Harriet Jacobs)
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| languageOfOrigin |
Dutch
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English ⓘ German ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Jacob ⓘ |
| notableWork | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ⓘ |
| patronymicFormOf | Jacob ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Jacobs Description of subject: Jacobs is a surname most notably associated with Harriet Jacobs, the African-American writer and abolitionist who authored the influential slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harriet Jacobs
subject surface form:
Louisa Matilda Jacobs