Jim Jacobs
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Jim Jacobs was an American boxing manager and handball champion best known for managing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson during the early part of his professional career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Jacobs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2693161 — 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: Jim Jacobs Context triple: [Mike Tyson, managedBy, Jim Jacobs]
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A.
Janno Lieber
Janno Lieber is an American public official and transportation executive who leads New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, overseeing the city’s vast subway, bus, and commuter rail systems.
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B.
Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello is an acclaimed American actor and director, particularly renowned for his work on Broadway in both plays and musicals.
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C.
Jim Loscutoff
Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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E.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
- 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: Jim Jacobs Target entity description: Jim Jacobs was an American boxing manager and handball champion best known for managing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson during the early part of his professional career.
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A.
Janno Lieber
Janno Lieber is an American public official and transportation executive who leads New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, overseeing the city’s vast subway, bus, and commuter rail systems.
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B.
Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello is an acclaimed American actor and director, particularly renowned for his work on Broadway in both plays and musicals.
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C.
Jim Loscutoff
Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Joel McNeely
Joel McNeely is an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film and television scores, including numerous projects for Disney and other major studios.
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E.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing manager
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handball player ⓘ human ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| activityPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States boxing
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international handball ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | leukemia ⓘ |
| coFounded | Big Fights, Inc. ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Cus D'Amato ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
boxing management
ⓘ
handball ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | professional boxing management ⓘ |
| handballTitles |
multiple United States national handball championships
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world handball championships ⓘ |
| hasCollection | large archive of historic boxing films ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Jacobs ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Jim ⓘ |
| influenced |
presentation of classic boxing on television
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public awareness of historical boxing matches ⓘ |
| knownAs | Jim Jacobs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Big Fights, Inc.
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collecting classic boxing films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| managed |
Edwin Rosario
ⓘ
Mike Tyson ⓘ Wilfred Benítez ⓘ |
| memberOf |
International Boxing Hall of Fame
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handball halls of fame ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
built one of the world’s largest private boxing film libraries
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recognized as one of the greatest handball players of his era ⓘ |
| notableFor | managing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| notableWork | managing the early professional career of Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| occupation |
boxing manager
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handball player ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| partner | Bill Cayton ⓘ |
| positionHeld | manager of Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| roleInCareerOf | early professional development of Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | handball ⓘ |
| workedIn |
boxing industry
ⓘ
sports promotion ⓘ |
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: Jim Jacobs Description of subject: Jim Jacobs was an American boxing manager and handball champion best known for managing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson during the early part of his professional career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.