Jerome Kaplan
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Jerome Kaplan was a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1975 film "Mahogany," a romantic drama starring Diana Ross.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerome Kaplan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10749894 — 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)
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Target entity: Jerome Kaplan Context triple: [Mahogany (film), screenwriter, Jerome Kaplan]
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A.
Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan is a television producer and executive known for developing and overseeing numerous network and cable series through his production company.
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B.
Larry Kaplan
Larry Kaplan is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an early developer for the Atari 2600.
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C.
Greg Kaplan
Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
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D.
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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E.
Samuel Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan is a microbiologist and academic known for mentoring prominent scientists, including plant biologist Joanne Chory, during their doctoral studies.
- 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: Jerome Kaplan Target entity description: Jerome Kaplan was a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1975 film "Mahogany," a romantic drama starring Diana Ross.
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A.
Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan is a television producer and executive known for developing and overseeing numerous network and cable series through his production company.
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B.
Larry Kaplan
Larry Kaplan is a pioneering video game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-founders of Activision and an early developer for the Atari 2600.
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C.
Greg Kaplan
Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
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D.
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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E.
Samuel Kaplan
Samuel Kaplan is a microbiologist and academic known for mentoring prominent scientists, including plant biologist Joanne Chory, during their doctoral studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| knownFor | screenplay for the film "Mahogany" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mahogany ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| starring | Diana Ross ⓘ |
| workedOn | Mahogany ⓘ |
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: Jerome Kaplan Description of subject: Jerome Kaplan was a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1975 film "Mahogany," a romantic drama starring Diana Ross.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.