Jon Hurwitz
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American person
film director
film producer
human
screenwriter
television director
television producer
Jon Hurwitz is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the co-creator of the Harold & Kumar film series and the Netflix series Cobra Kai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Hurwitz canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2745597 — 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: Jon Hurwitz Context triple: [Harold Lee, createdBy, Jon Hurwitz]
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A.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
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B.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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C.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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D.
Mark Fergus
Mark Fergus is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Children of Men" and "Iron Man."
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E.
James DeMonaco
James DeMonaco is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for creating and writing the dystopian horror franchise "The Purge."
- 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: Jon Hurwitz Target entity description: Jon Hurwitz is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the co-creator of the Harold & Kumar film series and the Netflix series Cobra Kai.
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A.
Christopher L. Yost
Christopher L. Yost is an American screenwriter and comic book writer known for his work on Marvel films and animated series, including co-writing the screenplay for Thor: Ragnarok.
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B.
Roberto Orci
Roberto Orci is a Mexican-American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing and producing major science fiction and action franchises such as the rebooted Star Trek films and the Transformers series.
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C.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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D.
Mark Fergus
Mark Fergus is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Children of Men" and "Iron Man."
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E.
James DeMonaco
James DeMonaco is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for creating and writing the dystopian horror franchise "The Purge."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Netflix
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New Line Cinema ⓘ YouTube Premium (bundle access) ⓘ
surface form:
YouTube Premium
|
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coCreatorOf |
Cobra Kai
ⓘ
Harold & Kumar film series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action comedy
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ martial arts television series ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator |
Hayden Schlossberg
ⓘ
Josh Heald ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating the Harold & Kumar film series
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co-creating the Netflix series Cobra Kai ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableGenre | stoner comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
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Cobra Kai ⓘ Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay ⓘ Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| roleInCobraKai |
co-creator
ⓘ
executive producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| roleInHaroldAndKumarSeries |
co-creator
ⓘ
producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| writesFor |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
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: Jon Hurwitz Description of subject: Jon Hurwitz is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known as the co-creator of the Harold & Kumar film series and the Netflix series Cobra Kai.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harold Lee
subject surface form:
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
subject surface form:
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay