Jackson Hurst
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Jackson Hurst is an American actor best known for his role as Grayson Kent on the television series "Drop Dead Diva."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jackson Hurst canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4043681 — 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: Jackson Hurst Context triple: [Drop Dead Diva, starring, Jackson Hurst]
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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C.
Alex Hannum
Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
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D.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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E.
Jesse Graham
Jesse Graham is a musician best known as a member of the British band Freak Power, which blended acid jazz, funk, and soul in the 1990s.
- 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: Jackson Hurst Target entity description: Jackson Hurst is an American actor best known for his role as Grayson Kent on the television series "Drop Dead Diva."
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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C.
Alex Hannum
Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
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D.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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E.
Jesse Graham
Jesse Graham is a musician best known as a member of the British band Freak Power, which blended acid jazz, funk, and soul in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A Bird of the Air
ⓘ
Drop Dead Diva ⓘ Have Dreams, Will Travel ⓘ Hidden Moon ⓘ Inspector Mom ⓘ Living Proof ⓘ NCIS ⓘ Shorts ⓘ Strange Angel ⓘ The Closer ⓘ The Mist (2007 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Mist
The Tree of Life ⓘ Unforgettable ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Grayson Kent ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-02-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Baylor University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hurst ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| givenName | Jackson ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm2494829 ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Grayson Kent on Drop Dead Diva ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Jackson Hurst ONNED1 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Drop Dead Diva ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Stacy Stas ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 2006–present ⓘ |
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: Jackson Hurst Description of subject: Jackson Hurst is an American actor best known for his role as Grayson Kent on the television series "Drop Dead Diva."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.