Jacob Goldman
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Jacob Goldman is a supporting character in the comedy film "Grumpy Old Men," known as a friend and neighbor of the feuding protagonists in their small Minnesota town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Goldman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354920 — 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 Goldman Context triple: [Grumpy Old Men, character, Jacob Goldman]
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A.
Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman was a 19th-century German-born American investment banker best known as the founder of the global financial firm Goldman Sachs.
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B.
Nathan Kahane
Nathan Kahane is a film producer and studio executive known for backing numerous successful Hollywood comedies and genre films.
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C.
Ariel Zev Emanuel
Ariel Zev Emanuel is a prominent American talent agent and entertainment executive, best known as the CEO of Endeavor and a major power broker in Hollywood.
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D.
Josh Goldstein
Josh Goldstein is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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E.
Harris Goldberg
Harris Goldberg is a Canadian-American screenwriter and film director known for writing comedy films such as "Without a Paddle" and co-writing "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo."
- 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 Goldman Target entity description: Jacob Goldman is a supporting character in the comedy film "Grumpy Old Men," known as a friend and neighbor of the feuding protagonists in their small Minnesota town.
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A.
Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman was a 19th-century German-born American investment banker best known as the founder of the global financial firm Goldman Sachs.
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B.
Nathan Kahane
Nathan Kahane is a film producer and studio executive known for backing numerous successful Hollywood comedies and genre films.
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C.
Ariel Zev Emanuel
Ariel Zev Emanuel is a prominent American talent agent and entertainment executive, best known as the CEO of Endeavor and a major power broker in Hollywood.
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D.
Josh Goldstein
Josh Goldstein is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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E.
Harris Goldberg
Harris Goldberg is a Canadian-American screenwriter and film director known for writing comedy films such as "Without a Paddle" and co-writing "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Grumpy Old Men ⓘ |
| conflictContext | feud between John Gustafson and Max Goldman ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse |
Grumpy Old Men film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Grumpy Old Men
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| friendOf |
John Gustafson
ⓘ
Max Goldman ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | neighbor ⓘ |
| hasSocialRole | friend ⓘ |
| livesIn | Wabasha, Minnesota ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic relief ⓘ |
| neighborOf |
John Gustafson
ⓘ
Max Goldman ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence | small Minnesota town ⓘ |
| workType | comedy film ⓘ |
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 Goldman Description of subject: Jacob Goldman is a supporting character in the comedy film "Grumpy Old Men," known as a friend and neighbor of the feuding protagonists in their small Minnesota town.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.