Jacob
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Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1630526 — 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: Jacob Context triple: [Jack Black, givenName, Jacob]
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A.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
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C.
Joseph
Joseph is the given name of Joe DiMaggio, the legendary American baseball center fielder for the New York Yankees.
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D.
Joseph
Joseph is the given first name of R. J. Mitchell, the British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of Gray Davis, the former governor of California.
- 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: Jacob Target entity description: Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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A.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
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C.
Joseph
Joseph is the given first name of R. J. Mitchell, the British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
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D.
Joseph
Joseph, also known as Barnabas, was an early Christian disciple and companion of the Apostle Paul, recognized for his missionary work and role in the spread of Christianity.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the given name of Joe Fulks, an early professional basketball star often credited as one of the NBA’s first great scorers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American actor ⓘ comedian ⓘ comedian ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| birthName | Jacob Black ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Jack Black ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
acoustic rock
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comedy rock ⓘ hard rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| hasStageName | Jack Black ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leadVocalistOf | Tenacious D ⓘ |
| memberOf | Tenacious D ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jumanji: The Next Level
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Jumanji: The Next Level ⓘ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ⓘ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ⓘ Kung Fu Panda ⓘ
surface form:
Kung Fu Panda (film series)
Kung Fu Panda ⓘ
surface form:
Kung Fu Panda (film series)
School of Rock (film) ⓘ
surface form:
School of Rock
School of Rock (film) ⓘ
surface form:
School of Rock
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny ⓘ Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
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: Jacob Description of subject: Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.