Thurgood Jenkins
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Thurgood Jenkins is the bumbling, good-hearted stoner protagonist of the 1998 cannabis comedy film "Half Baked," played by Dave Chappelle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thurgood Jenkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4001917 — 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: Thurgood Jenkins Context triple: [Half Baked, leadCharacter, Thurgood Jenkins]
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A.
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. is an American lawyer and former White House Cabinet Secretary who is the son of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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B.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
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C.
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was a pioneering African American lawyer and civil rights strategist whose legal work laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Julius L. Chambers
Julius L. Chambers was a prominent American civil rights attorney, educator, and former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known for his pivotal role in school desegregation and anti-discrimination litigation.
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E.
Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
- 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: Thurgood Jenkins Target entity description: Thurgood Jenkins is the bumbling, good-hearted stoner protagonist of the 1998 cannabis comedy film "Half Baked," played by Dave Chappelle.
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A.
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. is an American lawyer and former White House Cabinet Secretary who is the son of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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B.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
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C.
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was a pioneering African American lawyer and civil rights strategist whose legal work laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Julius L. Chambers
Julius L. Chambers was a prominent American civil rights attorney, educator, and former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known for his pivotal role in school desegregation and anti-discrimination litigation.
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E.
Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Half Baked ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | stoner comedy ⓘ |
| createdFor | 1998 film Half Baked ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | cannabis comedy film ⓘ |
| habit | cannabis use ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Sir Smoke-a-Lot (within the film’s narrative context) ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Brian
ⓘ
Kenny Davis ⓘ Scarface ⓘ |
| involvedIn | selling marijuana to raise bail money ⓘ |
| mainGoal | to get Kenny out of jail ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | janitor ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
bumbling
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good-hearted ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dave Chappelle ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Mary Jane Potman ⓘ |
| worksAt | pharmaceutical laboratory ⓘ |
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: Thurgood Jenkins Description of subject: Thurgood Jenkins is the bumbling, good-hearted stoner protagonist of the 1998 cannabis comedy film "Half Baked," played by Dave Chappelle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.