Jillette
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Jillette is the surname of Penn Jillette, the American magician, comedian, and half of the famed duo Penn & Teller.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jillette canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1923923 — 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: Jillette Context triple: [Penn Jillette, familyName, Jillette]
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
Joe Malone
Joe Malone was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and early star of the sport, renowned as one of the most prolific goal scorers of the pre-NHL era.
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C.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
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D.
Brian Jegan
Brian Jegan is an athlete best known for lighting the ceremonial torch at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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E.
Jerry
Jerry is the given name of Jerry Reinsdorf, the American businessman best known as the longtime owner of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox.
- 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: Jillette Target entity description: Jillette is the surname of Penn Jillette, the American magician, comedian, and half of the famed duo Penn & Teller.
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
Joe Malone
Joe Malone was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and early star of the sport, renowned as one of the most prolific goal scorers of the pre-NHL era.
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C.
Keefer
Keefer was a distinguished racing greyhound renowned for its achievements on the track, earning induction into the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
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D.
Brian Jegan
Brian Jegan is an athlete best known for lighting the ceremonial torch at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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E.
Jerry
Jerry is the given name of Jerry Reinsdorf, the American businessman best known as the longtime owner of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ magic duo ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Jillette ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
magic ⓘ |
| givenName | Penn ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Penn Jillette
ⓘ
Teller ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Penn Jillette ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Penn & Teller ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Penn & Teller
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ stage magic ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ magician ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Penn Jillette ⓘ |
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: Jillette Description of subject: Jillette is the surname of Penn Jillette, the American magician, comedian, and half of the famed duo Penn & Teller.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.