Jack Thibeau
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Jack Thibeau is an American actor best known for his supporting role in the 1979 prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" alongside Clint Eastwood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Thibeau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755268 — 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: Jack Thibeau Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, starring, Jack Thibeau]
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A.
Eric Thibault
Eric Thibault is a professional basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.
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B.
Quincy Douby
Quincy Douby is an American former professional basketball player best known as a high-scoring guard at Rutgers University who went on to play in the NBA and overseas.
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C.
James Barrett
James Barrett was a colonial militia colonel from Concord, Massachusetts, who played a key leadership role in organizing and directing local forces at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Chase Gioberti
Chase Gioberti is a central character in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known as a principled vineyard owner who often clashes with his powerful family over control of their wine empire.
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E.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
- 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: Jack Thibeau Target entity description: Jack Thibeau is an American actor best known for his supporting role in the 1979 prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" alongside Clint Eastwood.
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A.
Eric Thibault
Eric Thibault is a professional basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.
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B.
Quincy Douby
Quincy Douby is an American former professional basketball player best known as a high-scoring guard at Rutgers University who went on to play in the NBA and overseas.
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C.
James Barrett
James Barrett was a colonial militia colonel from Concord, Massachusetts, who played a key leadership role in organizing and directing local forces at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Chase Gioberti
Chase Gioberti is a central character in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known as a principled vineyard owner who often clashes with his powerful family over control of their wine empire.
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E.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| castMember |
Clint Eastwood
ⓘ
Jack Thibeau ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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prison film ⓘ |
| hasSupportingRoleIn |
Escape from Alcatraz
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Escape from Alcatraz
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Escape from Alcatraz
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linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
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| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| workedWith | Clint Eastwood ⓘ |
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: Jack Thibeau Description of subject: Jack Thibeau is an American actor best known for his supporting role in the 1979 prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" alongside Clint Eastwood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
subject linked to:
Jack Thibeau