Jacobs
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Jacobs is a global professional services firm specializing in engineering, construction, and technical consulting across industries such as infrastructure, aerospace, and environmental solutions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacobs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9903217 — 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: [Jacobs Engineering Group, hasAbbreviation, Jacobs]
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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.
Jacobsen
Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
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C.
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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D.
Jeppson
Jeppson is the maiden surname of American psychiatrist and science fiction writer Janet Asimov.
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E.
Jacob's
Jacob's is a well-known biscuit brand originating from Ireland, recognized for products like cream crackers and a variety of sweet and savory biscuits.
- 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 global professional services firm specializing in engineering, construction, and technical consulting across industries such as infrastructure, aerospace, and environmental solutions.
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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.
Jacobsen
Jacobsen is a common Danish surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as design, architecture, literature, and politics.
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C.
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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D.
Jeppson
Jeppson is the maiden surname of American psychiatrist and science fiction writer Janet Asimov.
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E.
Jacob's
Jacob's is a well-known biscuit brand originating from Ireland, recognized for products like cream crackers and a variety of sweet and savory biscuits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineering company
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multinational corporation ⓘ professional services firm ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| CEO | Bob Pragada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chairperson | Steve Demetriou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerName | Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Joseph J. Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingLocation | Pasadena, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
advanced facilities
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environmental solutions ⓘ sustainable infrastructure ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dallas, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1947 ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace and defense
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architecture, engineering and construction ⓘ construction management ⓘ energy ⓘ engineering services ⓘ environmental services ⓘ infrastructure ⓘ nuclear services ⓘ professional services ⓘ technical consulting ⓘ transportation ⓘ water and wastewater ⓘ |
| legalName | Jacobs Solutions Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| listedOn | S&P 500 index NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 60,000 ⓘ |
| offers |
construction management services
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digital and technology solutions ⓘ engineering design services ⓘ environmental consulting ⓘ operations and maintenance services ⓘ program management ⓘ project management ⓘ technical consulting ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
aerospace sector
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defense sector ⓘ energy sector ⓘ infrastructure sector ⓘ nuclear sector ⓘ transportation sector ⓘ water sector ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | J ⓘ |
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 global professional services firm specializing in engineering, construction, and technical consulting across industries such as infrastructure, aerospace, and environmental solutions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.