Francis Jacob
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Francis Jacob is the brother of French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, known for her roles in films such as "The Double Life of Véronique" and "Three Colors: Red."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francis Jacob canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11733794 — 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: Francis Jacob Context triple: [Irène Jacob, hasSibling, Francis Jacob]
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A.
Walter Bodmer
Walter Bodmer is a prominent British human geneticist and immunologist known for his influential work on the genetics of human populations and cancer.
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B.
Al Charpentier
Al Charpentier is an engineer best known for his key role in developing the Commodore 64 home computer.
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C.
Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset was a French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for discovering human leukocyte antigens (HLA), which laid the foundation for modern organ transplantation and immunogenetics.
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D.
Laurence Jackson Hyman
Laurence Jackson Hyman is an American editor and writer best known for preserving and promoting the work and legacy of his mother, the author Shirley Jackson.
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E.
Jacques K. Gilbert
Jacques K. Gilbert is an American public official serving as the mayor of Apex, North Carolina.
- 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: Francis Jacob Target entity description: Francis Jacob is the brother of French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, known for her roles in films such as "The Double Life of Véronique" and "Three Colors: Red."
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A.
Walter Bodmer
Walter Bodmer is a prominent British human geneticist and immunologist known for his influential work on the genetics of human populations and cancer.
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B.
Al Charpentier
Al Charpentier is an engineer best known for his key role in developing the Commodore 64 home computer.
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C.
Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset was a French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for discovering human leukocyte antigens (HLA), which laid the foundation for modern organ transplantation and immunogenetics.
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D.
Laurence Jackson Hyman
Laurence Jackson Hyman is an American editor and writer best known for preserving and promoting the work and legacy of his mother, the author Shirley Jackson.
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E.
Jacques K. Gilbert
Jacques K. Gilbert is an American public official serving as the mayor of Apex, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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France ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Double Life of Véronique
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Three Colors: Red ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| sibling |
Francis Jacob
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Irène Jacob ⓘ |
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: Francis Jacob Description of subject: Francis Jacob is the brother of French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, known for her roles in films such as "The Double Life of Véronique" and "Three Colors: Red."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Francis Jacob