Jacob Portman
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Jacob Portman is the teenage protagonist of the fantasy film "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," who discovers a hidden world of children with extraordinary abilities and his own unique power.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Portman canonical | 11 |
| Abe Portman | 1 |
| Jacob Portman (novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644486 — 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: Jacob Portman Context triple: [Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film), mainCharacter, Jacob Portman]
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A.
Jack Porter
Jack Porter is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as a loyal, morally grounded bar owner whose life becomes deeply entangled in Emily Thorne’s quest for vengeance.
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B.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
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D.
Eugene Sawyer
Eugene Sawyer was an American politician who briefly served as mayor of Chicago in the late 1980s following the death of Harold Washington.
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E.
Joel Parker
Joel Parker is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical American politicians and jurists.
- 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: Jacob Portman Target entity description: Jacob Portman is the teenage protagonist of the fantasy film "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," who discovers a hidden world of children with extraordinary abilities and his own unique power.
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A.
Jack Porter
Jack Porter is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as a loyal, morally grounded bar owner whose life becomes deeply entangled in Emily Thorne’s quest for vengeance.
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B.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
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D.
Eugene Sawyer
Eugene Sawyer was an American politician who briefly served as mayor of Chicago in the late 1980s following the death of Harold Washington.
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E.
Joel Parker
Joel Parker is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical American politicians and jurists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
ⓘ
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film) ⓘ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (novel) ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
adventure film
ⓘ
dark fantasy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emma Bloom
ⓘ
Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine ⓘ peculiar children ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Jacob Portman (novel character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jacob Portman
|
| belongsToGroup | peculiars ⓘ |
| characterIn | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (in-universe nationality)
ⓘ
linked to:
American (in-universe)
|
| creator | Ransom Riggs ⓘ |
| discovers |
hidden world of peculiar children
ⓘ
time loop ⓘ |
| familyName | Portman ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
hollowgasts
ⓘ
wights ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011 novel) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
detecting hollowgasts
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peculiar power ⓘ seeing hollowgasts ⓘ |
| hasAge | teenager ⓘ |
| hasGrandfather | Abraham Portman ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Emma Bloom ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
brave
ⓘ
curious ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| partOf | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children franchise ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Asa Butterfield ⓘ |
| relative | Abraham Portman ⓘ |
| setting | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (home) ⓘ |
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: Jacob Portman Description of subject: Jacob Portman is the teenage protagonist of the fantasy film "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," who discovers a hidden world of children with extraordinary abilities and his own unique power.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jacob Portman
linked to: Jacob Portman