Jed Kesey
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Jed Kesey was the son of American author Ken Kesey, remembered in part for his tragic death in a 1984 van accident while on a family trip to Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jed Kesey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339641 — 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: Jed Kesey Context triple: [Ken Kesey, hasChild, Jed Kesey]
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A.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was an American novelist and countercultural figure best known for his influential 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and his role in the 1960s psychedelic movement.
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B.
Faye Haxby Kesey
Faye Haxby Kesey was the longtime wife and partner of American novelist Ken Kesey, known for her quiet but central role in the countercultural community that formed around him in Oregon.
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C.
Patrick "Lights" Leary
Patrick "Lights" Leary is the fictional former heavyweight boxing champion and family man at the center of the TV drama series "Lights Out."
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D.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Jan Kerouac
Jan Kerouac was an American novelist and memoirist known for exploring her unconventional upbringing and complex relationship with her father, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.
- 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: Jed Kesey Target entity description: Jed Kesey was the son of American author Ken Kesey, remembered in part for his tragic death in a 1984 van accident while on a family trip to Mexico.
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A.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was an American novelist and countercultural figure best known for his influential 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and his role in the 1960s psychedelic movement.
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B.
Faye Haxby Kesey
Faye Haxby Kesey was the longtime wife and partner of American novelist Ken Kesey, known for her quiet but central role in the countercultural community that formed around him in Oregon.
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C.
Patrick "Lights" Leary
Patrick "Lights" Leary is the fictional former heavyweight boxing champion and family man at the center of the TV drama series "Lights Out."
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D.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Jan Kerouac
Jan Kerouac was an American novelist and memoirist known for exploring her unconventional upbringing and complex relationship with her father, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | traffic collision ⓘ |
| child | Jed Kesey ⓘ |
| childOf | Ken Kesey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984 ⓘ |
| diedDuring | family trip to Mexico ⓘ |
| notableFor | tragic death in a 1984 van accident ⓘ |
| notableWork |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
ⓘ
linked to:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)
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| occupation | author ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mexico ⓘ |
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: Jed Kesey Description of subject: Jed Kesey was the son of American author Ken Kesey, remembered in part for his tragic death in a 1984 van accident while on a family trip to Mexico.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.