Gregory Jacobs
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Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gregory Jacobs canonical | 22 |
| Gregory Edward Jacobs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1198269 — 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: Gregory Jacobs Context triple: [Edge of Tomorrow, producer, Gregory Jacobs]
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A.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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B.
Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who served as a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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E.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
- 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: Gregory Jacobs Target entity description: Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
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A.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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B.
Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Jarvis was an American engineer and astronaut who served as a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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C.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
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D.
Curtis Craig
Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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E.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
assistant director
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Steven Soderbergh ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Criminal
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Magic Mike XXL ⓘ Wind Chill ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor | longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Behind the Candelabra
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Contagion ⓘ
linked to:
Contagion (2011 film)
Criminal ⓘ Erin Brockovich ⓘ Haywire ⓘ Let Them All Talk ⓘ Logan Lucky ⓘ Magic Mike XXL ⓘ No Sudden Move ⓘ Ocean's Eleven ⓘ Ocean's Thirteen ⓘ Ocean's Twelve ⓘ Side Effects ⓘ The Informant! ⓘ The Laundromat ⓘ Traffic ⓘ Unsane ⓘ Wind Chill ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant director
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| produced |
Behind the Candelabra
ⓘ
Contagion ⓘ
linked to:
Contagion (2011 film)
Logan Lucky ⓘ Ocean's Eleven ⓘ Ocean's Thirteen ⓘ Ocean's Twelve ⓘ Side Effects ⓘ The Laundromat ⓘ Unsane ⓘ |
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: Gregory Jacobs Description of subject: Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gregory Jacobs