Jack Reagan
E404422
Jack Reagan was the father of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and worked as a traveling shoe salesman in the American Midwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Reagan canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3842758 — 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: Jack Reagan Context triple: [Neil Reagan, father, Jack Reagan]
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A.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, known for his conservative economic policies, Cold War leadership, and influential role in reshaping American politics in the 1980s.
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B.
Ron Reagan
Ron Reagan is an American political commentator, radio host, and the son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Neil Reagan
Neil Reagan was an American radio and television producer and advertising executive, best known as the older brother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
John Neil Reagan
John Neil Reagan was an American radio station manager and advertising executive best known as the older brother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, known for his foreign policy achievements such as opening relations with China and for resigning from office amid the Watergate scandal.
- 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: Jack Reagan Target entity description: Jack Reagan was the father of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and worked as a traveling shoe salesman in the American Midwest.
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A.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, known for his conservative economic policies, Cold War leadership, and influential role in reshaping American politics in the 1980s.
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B.
Ron Reagan
Ron Reagan is an American political commentator, radio host, and the son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Neil Reagan
Neil Reagan was an American radio and television producer and advertising executive, best known as the older brother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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D.
John Neil Reagan
John Neil Reagan was an American radio station manager and advertising executive best known as the older brother of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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E.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, known for his foreign policy achievements such as opening relations with China and for resigning from office amid the Watergate scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child |
Neil Reagan
ⓘ
Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1883-07-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1941-05-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Reagan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ronald Reagan
|
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of U.S. President Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| name | Jack Reagan ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Neil Reagan
ⓘ
Nelle Reagan ⓘ
linked to:
Nelle Wilson Reagan
Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| occupation |
shoe salesman
ⓘ
traveling salesman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fulton, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Fulton, Illinois
|
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Dixon, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Dixon, Illinois
Illinois ⓘ Tampico, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nelle Reagan
ⓘ
linked to:
Nelle Wilson Reagan
|
| workLocation |
American Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
Illinois ⓘ Iowa ⓘ |
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: Jack Reagan Description of subject: Jack Reagan was the father of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and worked as a traveling shoe salesman in the American Midwest.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.