Powell Jobs
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Powell Jobs is the surname of Laurene Powell Jobs, an American billionaire businesswoman, philanthropist, and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Powell Jobs canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497063 — 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: Powell Jobs Context triple: [Laurene Powell Jobs, familyName, Powell Jobs]
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A.
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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B.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American businessman best known for serving as Apple’s CEO in the 1980s after being recruited from PepsiCo, during which time he both helped expand the company and clashed with Steve Jobs.
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C.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Brennan-Jobs is an American writer and memoirist best known for her book "Small Fry," which recounts her complex relationship with her father, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
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.
- 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: Powell Jobs Target entity description: Powell Jobs is the surname of Laurene Powell Jobs, an American billionaire businesswoman, philanthropist, and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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A.
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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B.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American businessman best known for serving as Apple’s CEO in the 1980s after being recruited from PepsiCo, during which time he both helped expand the company and clashed with Steve Jobs.
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C.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Brennan-Jobs is an American writer and memoirist best known for her book "Small Fry," which recounts her complex relationship with her father, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American billionaire
ⓘ
billionaire ⓘ businesswoman ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| chairpersonOf | Emerson Collective ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Powell Jobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| founderOf | Emerson Collective ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Laurene ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Powell Jobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Powell Jobs self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasWealthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| industry |
impact investing
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| name | Laurene Powell Jobs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the wealthiest women in the world
ⓘ
being the widow of Steve Jobs ⓘ Emerson Collective ⓘ
surface form:
founding Emerson Collective
philanthropic work in education ⓘ philanthropic work in immigration reform ⓘ philanthropic work in social justice ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
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: Powell Jobs Description of subject: Powell Jobs is the surname of Laurene Powell Jobs, an American billionaire businesswoman, philanthropist, and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs
subject surface form:
Laurene Powell Jobs