Jon Small
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Jon Small is a music video director best known for directing the groundbreaking Run-DMC and Aerosmith video for "Walk This Way," which helped bridge hip-hop and rock to a mainstream audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jon Small canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12907493 — 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: Jon Small Context triple: [Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith song), musicVideoDirector, Jon Small]
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A.
Adam Small
Adam Small was a prominent South African poet, playwright, and intellectual known for his Afrikaans and Kaaps-language works that critically engaged with apartheid and social injustice.
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B.
Jonathan Small
Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
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C.
Michael Small
Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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D.
Paul Small
Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
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E.
Todd Smallie
Todd Smallie is an American bassist best known for his long tenure with the Derek Trucks Band, where he contributed to their blend of blues, rock, jazz, and world music.
- 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: Jon Small Target entity description: Jon Small is a music video director best known for directing the groundbreaking Run-DMC and Aerosmith video for "Walk This Way," which helped bridge hip-hop and rock to a mainstream audience.
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A.
Adam Small
Adam Small was a prominent South African poet, playwright, and intellectual known for his Afrikaans and Kaaps-language works that critically engaged with apartheid and social injustice.
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B.
Jonathan Small
Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
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C.
Michael Small
Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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D.
Paul Small
Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
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E.
Todd Smallie
Todd Smallie is an American bassist best known for his long tenure with the Derek Trucks Band, where he contributed to their blend of blues, rock, jazz, and world music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | music video director ⓘ |
| activeInField | music industry ⓘ |
| appearedInMusicVideo |
Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Walk This Way
Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith music video) ⓘ
linked to:
Walk This Way
|
| basedOnSong | Walk This Way ⓘ |
| contributedTo | bridging hip hop and rock for a mainstream audience ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| directed |
Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Walk This Way
|
| director | Jon Small ⓘ |
| featuredArtist |
Aerosmith
ⓘ
Run-DMC ⓘ
linked to:
Run-D.M.C.
|
| fieldOfWork | music video direction ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | music videos ⓘ |
| helpedBridge | hip hop and rock ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing the Run-DMC and Aerosmith video for Walk This Way ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notability | pioneering crossover hip hop–rock music video ⓘ |
| notableFor | bringing hip hop to MTV’s rock audience ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Walk This Way (Run-DMC and Aerosmith music video)
ⓘ
linked to:
Walk This Way
|
| occupation | music video director ⓘ |
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: Jon Small Description of subject: Jon Small is a music video director best known for directing the groundbreaking Run-DMC and Aerosmith video for "Walk This Way," which helped bridge hip-hop and rock to a mainstream audience.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Walk This Way with Run-DMC