Job Skeffington
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Job Skeffington is a central character in the 1944 film "Mr. Skeffington," portrayed as a wealthy, devoted husband whose troubled marriage to a vain socialite drives the story’s emotional drama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Job Skeffington canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6660724 — 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: Job Skeffington Context triple: [Mr. Skeffington, mainCharacter, Job Skeffington]
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A.
Roy Skeggs
Roy Skeggs was a British film and television producer best known for revitalizing Hammer Film Productions in the 1970s and 1980s and steering the company into television and lower-budget horror projects.
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B.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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C.
Harry Roberts
Harry Roberts was an American statistician and economist known for his influential work in time series analysis and contributions to financial economics.
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D.
John Keeble
John Keeble is an English drummer best known as a founding member of the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.
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E.
Glenn Ferguson
Glenn Ferguson is a former Northern Irish footballer and prolific striker best known for his long, successful career in the Irish League and his goal-scoring exploits with clubs including Linfield FC.
- 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: Job Skeffington Target entity description: Job Skeffington is a central character in the 1944 film "Mr. Skeffington," portrayed as a wealthy, devoted husband whose troubled marriage to a vain socialite drives the story’s emotional drama.
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A.
Roy Skeggs
Roy Skeggs was a British film and television producer best known for revitalizing Hammer Film Productions in the 1970s and 1980s and steering the company into television and lower-budget horror projects.
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B.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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C.
Harry Roberts
Harry Roberts was an American statistician and economist known for his influential work in time series analysis and contributions to financial economics.
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D.
John Keeble
John Keeble is an English drummer best known as a founding member of the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.
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E.
Glenn Ferguson
Glenn Ferguson is a former Northern Irish footballer and prolific striker best known for his long, successful career in the Irish League and his goal-scoring exploits with clubs including Linfield FC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mr. Skeffington ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
forgiveness
ⓘ
marital devotion ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ vanity ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Elizabeth von Arnim ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | novel Mr. Skeffington ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devoted husband
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| conflict | troubled marriage ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Fanny Trellis Skeffington
ⓘ
linked to:
Fanny Skeffington
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| createdFor | Warner Bros. film adaptation ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives emotional drama of the story ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
1944 film Mr. Skeffington
ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Skeffington (1944 film)
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| roleInNarrative | central character ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | New York high society ⓘ |
| socialStatus | financially successful businessman ⓘ |
| spouse | Fanny Trellis Skeffington ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1944 ⓘ |
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: Job Skeffington Description of subject: Job Skeffington is a central character in the 1944 film "Mr. Skeffington," portrayed as a wealthy, devoted husband whose troubled marriage to a vain socialite drives the story’s emotional drama.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.