Jerry Lundegaard
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Jerry Lundegaard is the financially desperate, bumbling car salesman whose botched crime scheme drives the darkly comic plot of the film "Fargo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Lundegaard canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4420087 — 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: Jerry Lundegaard Context triple: [Fargo, character, Jerry Lundegaard]
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A.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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D.
John Henry Kagi
John Henry Kagi was an abolitionist and close associate of John Brown who served as a key lieutenant and strategist in the lead-up to the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid.
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E.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
- 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: Jerry Lundegaard Target entity description: Jerry Lundegaard is the financially desperate, bumbling car salesman whose botched crime scheme drives the darkly comic plot of the film "Fargo."
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A.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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D.
John Henry Kagi
John Henry Kagi was an abolitionist and close associate of John Brown who served as a key lieutenant and strategist in the lead-up to the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid.
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E.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Fargo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
black comedy film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gustafson Motors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bumbling
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cowardly ⓘ deceitful ⓘ financially desperate ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Ethan Coen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joel Coen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crimeMotive |
desire to obtain funds from father-in-law Wade Gustafson
ⓘ
need for money ⓘ |
| employer | Wade Gustafson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Fargo universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmMedium | live-action ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Fargo (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreFunction | source of dark comedy ⓘ |
| hires |
Carl Showalter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gaear Grimsrud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally corrupt ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antihero
ⓘ
primary instigator of plot ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene |
argues with Wade Gustafson over parking lot deal
ⓘ
attempts to flee from police in motel room ⓘ |
| occupation | car salesman ⓘ |
| plans | kidnapping of his wife Jean Lundegaard ⓘ |
| plotOutcome | crime scheme collapses ⓘ |
| portrayalNotedFor |
nervous mannerisms
ⓘ
pathetic desperation ⓘ stammering speech ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William H. Macy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pursuedBy | Marge Gunderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Jean Lundegaard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotty Lundegaard NERFINISHED ⓘ Wade Gustafson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schemeInvolves |
fake kidnapping ransom
ⓘ
fraudulent car financing ⓘ |
| screenTimeImportance | central character ⓘ |
| setting |
Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jerry Lundegaard Description of subject: Jerry Lundegaard is the financially desperate, bumbling car salesman whose botched crime scheme drives the darkly comic plot of the film "Fargo."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lester Nygaard