Jonathan Kaplan
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American person
actor
courtroom drama film
feature film
film director
human
producer
television director
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Kaplan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105186 — 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: Jonathan Kaplan Context triple: [The Accused, director, Jonathan Kaplan]
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A.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
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B.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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C.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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D.
Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn is an American filmmaker best known for his documentary "My Architect," which explores the life and legacy of his father, renowned architect Louis Kahn.
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E.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
- 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: Jonathan Kaplan Target entity description: Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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A.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
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B.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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C.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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D.
Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn is an American filmmaker best known for his documentary "My Architect," which explores the life and legacy of his father, renowned architect Louis Kahn.
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E.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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actor ⓘ courtroom drama film ⓘ feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | The Accused ⓘ |
| director | Jonathan Kaplan ⓘ |
| familyName | Kaplan ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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legal drama ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
courtroom drama
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| name | Jonathan Kaplan ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Accused ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Kaplan Description of subject: Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.