Jake Busey
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Jake Busey is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Starship Troopers" and "The Frighteners," as well as for being the son of actor Gary Busey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jake Busey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13486529 — 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: Jake Busey Context triple: [Identity, starredActor, Jake Busey]
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A.
Gary Busey
Gary Busey is an American actor known for his intense, often eccentric performances in films such as "The Buddy Holly Story," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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B.
Pauly Shore
Pauly Shore is an American comedian and actor best known for his MTV VJ work in the early 1990s and starring roles in comedy films such as "Encino Man" and "Bio-Dome."
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C.
David Arquette
David Arquette is an American actor, filmmaker, and former professional wrestler best known for his role as Dewey Riley in the "Scream" horror film franchise.
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D.
Adam LaVorgna
Adam LaVorgna is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "7th Heaven" and films such as "The Beautician and the Beast."
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E.
William Gary Busey
William Gary Busey is an American actor known for his intense, often eccentric performances in films such as "The Buddy Holly Story," "Point Break," and "Lethal Weapon."
- 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: Jake Busey Target entity description: Jake Busey is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Starship Troopers" and "The Frighteners," as well as for being the son of actor Gary Busey.
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A.
Gary Busey
Gary Busey is an American actor known for his intense, often eccentric performances in films such as "The Buddy Holly Story," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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B.
Pauly Shore
Pauly Shore is an American comedian and actor best known for his MTV VJ work in the early 1990s and starring roles in comedy films such as "Encino Man" and "Bio-Dome."
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C.
David Arquette
David Arquette is an American actor, filmmaker, and former professional wrestler best known for his role as Dewey Riley in the "Scream" horror film franchise.
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D.
Adam LaVorgna
Adam LaVorgna is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "7th Heaven" and films such as "The Beautician and the Beast."
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E.
William Gary Busey
William Gary Busey is an American actor known for his intense, often eccentric performances in films such as "The Buddy Holly Story," "Point Break," and "Lethal Weapon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| birthName | William Jacob Busey Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf | Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-06-15 ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jacob
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| hairColor | blond ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | European American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Judy Helkenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jake Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Contact
NERFINISHED
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From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Identity NERFINISHED ⓘ Starship Troopers NERFINISHED ⓘ Stranger Things NERFINISHED ⓘ The Frighteners NERFINISHED ⓘ The Predator (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomcats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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musician ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| parent | Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Ace Levy in Starship Troopers
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Lowe in Stranger Things ⓘ Johnny Bartlett in The Frighteners ⓘ Joseph in Contact NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyle Brenner in Tomcats ⓘ Professor Aiden Tanner in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Maine in Identity NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Keyes in The Predator (2018 film) ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jake Busey Description of subject: Jake Busey is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Starship Troopers" and "The Frighteners," as well as for being the son of actor Gary Busey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Contact (1997 film)