Jackie Cogan
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Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jackie Cogan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507770 — 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: Jackie Cogan Context triple: [Killing Them Softly, mainCharacter, Jackie Cogan]
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A.
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan was an American actor who became one of the first major child stars in film history and later gained renewed fame as Uncle Fester on the television series "The Addams Family."
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B.
Nat Jaffe
Nat Jaffe is a central character in Michael Chabon’s novel "Telegraph Avenue," depicted as one of the intertwined figures navigating family, culture, and community in contemporary Oakland and Berkeley.
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C.
Frankie Elkin
Frankie Elkin is a recurring protagonist in Lisa Gardner’s crime novels, known as an ordinary yet relentless woman who dedicates her life to finding missing people that the world has forgotten.
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D.
Marion Jacobs
Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
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E.
Joan Caulfield
Joan Caulfield was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood romantic comedies and dramas.
- 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: Jackie Cogan Target entity description: Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
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A.
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan was an American actor who became one of the first major child stars in film history and later gained renewed fame as Uncle Fester on the television series "The Addams Family."
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B.
Nat Jaffe
Nat Jaffe is a central character in Michael Chabon’s novel "Telegraph Avenue," depicted as one of the intertwined figures navigating family, culture, and community in contemporary Oakland and Berkeley.
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C.
Frankie Elkin
Frankie Elkin is a recurring protagonist in Lisa Gardner’s crime novels, known as an ordinary yet relentless woman who dedicates her life to finding missing people that the world has forgotten.
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D.
Marion Jacobs
Marion Jacobs is the birth name of Little Walter, the influential American blues harmonica player and singer known for revolutionizing amplified harmonica in Chicago blues.
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E.
Joan Caulfield
Joan Caulfield was an American film and television actress best known for her roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood romantic comedies and dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Killing Them Softly ⓘ |
| affiliation | organized crime ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Killing Them Softly ⓘ |
| associatedWith | mob poker games ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Cogan's Trade ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
methodical
ⓘ
professional ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | George V. Higgins ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Killing Them Softly (2012 film)
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linked to:
Killing Them Softly
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| genreOfWork | crime film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | antihero ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableAction |
investigates a mob-protected poker game heist
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punishes those responsible for the heist ⓘ |
| occupation |
hitman
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mob enforcer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brad Pitt ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | New Orleans ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
economic hardship
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violence in organized crime ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
contract killing
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intimidation ⓘ |
| worksFor | criminal underworld ⓘ |
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: Jackie Cogan Description of subject: Jackie Cogan is a professional mob enforcer and hitman who methodically investigates and punishes those responsible for a heist in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.