Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penn Jillette canonical | 52 |
| Zolten Penn Jillette | 5 |
| Penn Fraser Jillette | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308224 — 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: Penn Jillette Context triple: [James Randi, influenced, Penn Jillette]
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A.
Steve Ross
Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
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B.
David Letterman
David Letterman is an American television host and comedian best known for his long-running late-night talk shows, including "Late Night with David Letterman" and "The Late Show with David Letterman."
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C.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his stand-up, film roles, and multiple stints hosting the Academy Awards.
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D.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician renowned for his influential stand-up comedy, film roles, and contributions to American humor.
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- 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: Penn Jillette Target entity description: Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
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A.
Steve Ross
Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
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B.
David Letterman
David Letterman is an American television host and comedian best known for his long-running late-night talk shows, including "Late Night with David Letterman" and "The Late Show with David Letterman."
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C.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his stand-up, film roles, and multiple stints hosting the Academy Awards.
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D.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician renowned for his influential stand-up comedy, film roles, and contributions to American humor.
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Penn Jillette Description of subject: Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Penn Jillette
linked to: Penn Jillette
subject linked to:
Raymond
subject linked to:
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
subject linked to:
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
linked to: Penn Jillette
linked to: Penn Jillette
linked to: Penn Jillette