Danny Jacobson
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Danny Jacobson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "Mad About You."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Jacobson canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8651144 — 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: Danny Jacobson Context triple: [Mad About You, creator, Danny Jacobson]
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A.
Jeffrey Reiner
Jeffrey Reiner is an American television director, producer, and writer known for his work on series such as Friday Night Lights and The Affair.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
Jeffrey Seller
Jeffrey Seller is a prominent American theatrical producer best known for bringing groundbreaking Broadway musicals like "Hamilton," "Rent," and "Avenue Q" to the stage.
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D.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
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E.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American rapper and producer better known by his stage name Shock G, the frontman of Digital Underground and a key figure in West Coast hip hop.
- 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: Danny Jacobson Target entity description: Danny Jacobson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "Mad About You."
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A.
Jeffrey Reiner
Jeffrey Reiner is an American television director, producer, and writer known for his work on series such as Friday Night Lights and The Affair.
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B.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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C.
Jeffrey Seller
Jeffrey Seller is a prominent American theatrical producer best known for bringing groundbreaking Broadway musicals like "Hamilton," "Rent," and "Avenue Q" to the stage.
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D.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
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E.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American rapper and producer better known by his stage name Shock G, the frontman of Digital Underground and a key figure in West Coast hip hop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Mad About You ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy writing
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television ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notability | best known for co-creating the sitcom "Mad About You" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mad About You ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
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: Danny Jacobson Description of subject: Danny Jacobson is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "Mad About You."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.