Colin Jost
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Colin Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor best known as a longtime "Saturday Night Live" writer and co-anchor of its "Weekend Update" segment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colin Jost canonical | 4 |
| Colin Kelly Jost | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3402065 — 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: Colin Jost Context triple: [Stefon, segmentPartner, Colin Jost]
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A.
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his sketch series "Kroll Show," his work on "The League," and co-creating and voicing characters in the animated series "Big Mouth."
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B.
Bill Hader
Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
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C.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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D.
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
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E.
B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
- 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: Colin Jost Target entity description: Colin Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor best known as a longtime "Saturday Night Live" writer and co-anchor of its "Weekend Update" segment.
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A.
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his sketch series "Kroll Show," his work on "The League," and co-creating and voicing characters in the animated series "Big Mouth."
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B.
Bill Hader
Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
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C.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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D.
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
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E.
B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television personality ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-06-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Regis High School ⓘ |
| employer |
NBC
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Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jost ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | history and literature ⓘ |
| fullName |
Colin Jost
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colin Kelly Jost
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| genre |
observational comedy
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political satire ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Colin ⓘ |
| hasChild | Cosmo Jost ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Weekend Update anchor
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writer on Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2020 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The Harvard Lampoon
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surface form:
Harvard Lampoon
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Very Punchable Face
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Saturday Night Live ⓘ Staten Island Summer ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ
surface form:
Weekend Update
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
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Staten Island ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Weekend Update co-anchor
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co-head writer of Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2020 (A Very Punchable Face) ⓘ |
| sibling | Casey Jost ⓘ |
| spouse | Scarlett Johansson ⓘ |
| startTime |
2005 (Saturday Night Live writer)
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2014 (Weekend Update co-anchor) ⓘ |
| wrote | Staten Island Summer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Colin Jost Description of subject: Colin Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor best known as a longtime "Saturday Night Live" writer and co-anchor of its "Weekend Update" segment.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colin Kelly Jost