Professor Sheldon Oberon
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Professor Sheldon Oberon is a video game avatar in the Jumanji film series, portrayed by Jack Black as a bumbling yet knowledgeable cartographer and cryptographer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Professor Sheldon Oberon canonical | 2 |
| Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8008644 — 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: Professor Sheldon Oberon Context triple: [Jumanji: The Next Level, featuresCharacter, Professor Sheldon Oberon]
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A.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
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B.
Professor Westervelt
Professor Westervelt is a mysterious, manipulative mesmerist and showman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel *The Blithedale Romance*, associated with dark influence and psychological control.
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C.
Professor Julius Kelp
Professor Julius Kelp is the nerdy, socially awkward scientist portrayed by Jerry Lewis in the 1963 film "The Nutty Professor," whose transformative experiments and persona later inspired the character Sherman Klump.
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D.
Professor Irwin Corey
Professor Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his improvisational, pseudo-intellectual "World's Foremost Authority" persona and surreal, politically tinged humor.
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E.
Sheldon Hawkes
Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
- 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: Professor Sheldon Oberon Target entity description: Professor Sheldon Oberon is a video game avatar in the Jumanji film series, portrayed by Jack Black as a bumbling yet knowledgeable cartographer and cryptographer.
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A.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
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B.
Professor Westervelt
Professor Westervelt is a mysterious, manipulative mesmerist and showman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel *The Blithedale Romance*, associated with dark influence and psychological control.
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C.
Professor Julius Kelp
Professor Julius Kelp is the nerdy, socially awkward scientist portrayed by Jerry Lewis in the 1963 film "The Nutty Professor," whose transformative experiments and persona later inspired the character Sherman Klump.
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D.
Professor Irwin Corey
Professor Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his improvisational, pseudo-intellectual "World's Foremost Authority" persona and surreal, politically tinged humor.
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E.
Sheldon Hawkes
Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ video game avatar ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jumanji film series
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linked to:
Jumanji franchise
Jumanji: The Next Level ⓘ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ⓘ |
| basedOn | video game non-player character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| franchise |
Jumanji
ⓘ
linked to:
Jumanji franchise
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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comedy film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
bumbling personality
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highly knowledgeable about Jumanji world ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartographer
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cryptographer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Black ⓘ |
| roleInStory | member of Jumanji player team ⓘ |
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: Professor Sheldon Oberon Description of subject: Professor Sheldon Oberon is a video game avatar in the Jumanji film series, portrayed by Jack Black as a bumbling yet knowledgeable cartographer and cryptographer.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Professor Sheldon Oberon