Jacobsen
E455460
Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacobsen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4588716 — 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: Jacobsen Context triple: [Arne Jacobsen, familyName, Jacobsen]
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A.
Jacobs
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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B.
Jenssen
Jenssen is a Scandinavian surname, particularly common in Norway, that originated as a patronymic form meaning "son of Jens."
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C.
Johnsen
Johnsen is a surname of Scandinavian origin, commonly used as a patronymic family name meaning "son of John."
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D.
Chosen Jacobs
Chosen Jacobs is an American actor and singer best known for his role as Mike Hanlon in the horror film "It" (2017) and its sequel.
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E.
Eisenberg
Eisenberg is a surname most notably associated with American actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg.
- 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: Jacobsen Target entity description: Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
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A.
Jacobs
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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B.
Jenssen
Jenssen is a Scandinavian surname, particularly common in Norway, that originated as a patronymic form meaning "son of Jens."
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C.
Johnsen
Johnsen is a surname of Scandinavian origin, commonly used as a patronymic family name meaning "son of John."
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D.
Chosen Jacobs
Chosen Jacobs is an American actor and singer best known for his role as Mike Hanlon in the horror film "It" (2017) and its sequel.
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E.
Eisenberg
Eisenberg is a surname most notably associated with American actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish-language surname
ⓘ
patronymic surname ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Danish families
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Norwegian families ⓘ Surnames from given names ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Danish
ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Jacob ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Anker Jørgensen Jacobsen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Arne Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Egbert Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Finn Juhl Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Hans Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Henrik Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jens Peter Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Lars Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael P. Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Morten Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Niels Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ole Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Per Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Rasmus Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sascha Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Steen Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Thorkild Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Torben Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Trine Juul-Hansen Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Viggo Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Jacobson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jakobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Argentina
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Australia ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Canada ⓘ Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Faroe Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany ⓘ Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Jacobsen Description of subject: Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carl Jacobsen