Jacob Pechenik
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Jacob Pechenik is an American film producer and entrepreneur known for his work in independent cinema and his former marriage to actress Zooey Deschanel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Pechenik canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6513151 — 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 Pechenik Context triple: [Zooey Deschanel, spouse, Jacob Pechenik]
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A.
Charles Zegar
Charles Zegar is an American businessman and computer scientist best known as one of the co-founders of the financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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D.
Joe Pisarcik
Joe Pisarcik is a former NFL quarterback best known for his infamous late-game fumble in 1978 that led to the "Miracle at the Meadowlands."
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 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 Pechenik Target entity description: Jacob Pechenik is an American film producer and entrepreneur known for his work in independent cinema and his former marriage to actress Zooey Deschanel.
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A.
Charles Zegar
Charles Zegar is an American businessman and computer scientist best known as one of the co-founders of the financial information and media company Bloomberg L.P.
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B.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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C.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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D.
Joe Pisarcik
Joe Pisarcik is a former NFL quarterback best known for his infamous late-game fumble in 1978 that led to the "Miracle at the Meadowlands."
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E.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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entrepreneur ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
film production
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | independent film ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Charlie Wolf Pechenik
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Elsie Otter Pechenik ⓘ |
| knownFor | independent cinema production ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2020 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2015 ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Zooey Deschanel ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Before Midnight
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Cold Comes the Night ⓘ Kiss of the Damned ⓘ The Immigrant ⓘ The Skeleton Twins ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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film producer ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jacob Pechenik
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Zooey Deschanel ⓘ |
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 Pechenik Description of subject: Jacob Pechenik is an American film producer and entrepreneur known for his work in independent cinema and his former marriage to actress Zooey Deschanel.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.