Jerry Sohl
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Jerry Sohl was an American science fiction author and screenwriter known for his work on television series such as Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Sohl canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484721 — 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 Sohl Context triple: [The Corbomite Maneuver, writer, Jerry Sohl]
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A.
Wayne Messmer
Wayne Messmer is an American singer and longtime Chicago sports announcer best known for his powerful renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Chicago Blackhawks games.
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B.
Ray Nitschke
Ray Nitschke was a legendary middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, renowned for his hard-hitting play and key role in Vince Lombardi’s championship teams.
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C.
Greg Beeman
Greg Beeman is an American television director and producer known for his work on genre series such as "Falling Skies," "Heroes," and "Smallville."
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D.
Jerry Juhl
Jerry Juhl was an American screenwriter best known as the head writer for Jim Henson’s Muppets, contributing to projects like The Muppet Show and several Muppet films.
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E.
Joe Sahlen
Joe Sahlen is an American businessman best known as the owner of the Western New York Flash professional soccer club.
- 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 Sohl Target entity description: Jerry Sohl was an American science fiction author and screenwriter known for his work on television series such as Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
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A.
Wayne Messmer
Wayne Messmer is an American singer and longtime Chicago sports announcer best known for his powerful renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Chicago Blackhawks games.
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B.
Ray Nitschke
Ray Nitschke was a legendary middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, renowned for his hard-hitting play and key role in Vince Lombardi’s championship teams.
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C.
Greg Beeman
Greg Beeman is an American television director and producer known for his work on genre series such as "Falling Skies," "Heroes," and "Smallville."
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D.
Jerry Juhl
Jerry Juhl was an American screenwriter best known as the head writer for Jim Henson’s Muppets, contributing to projects like The Muppet Show and several Muppet films.
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E.
Joe Sahlen
Joe Sahlen is an American businessman best known as the owner of the Western New York Flash professional soccer club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sohl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
speculative fiction
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television writing ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ray Bradbury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert A. Heinlein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Sohl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableTelevisionEpisode |
“Counterweight”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Living Doll” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Queen of the Nile” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Choice” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Corbomite Maneuver” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Duplicate Man” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Guests” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Inheritors” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Invisible Enemy” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Lateness of the Hour” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Mice” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The New Exhibit” NERFINISHED ⓘ “This Side of Paradise” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Whom Gods Destroy” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Costigan’s Needle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Altered Ego NERFINISHED ⓘ The Haploids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mars Monopoly NERFINISHED ⓘ The Transcendent Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
NERFINISHED
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Naked City NERFINISHED ⓘ Route 66 NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invaders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man from U.N.C.L.E. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outer Limits NERFINISHED ⓘ The Time Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Wild West NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jerry Sohl Description of subject: Jerry Sohl was an American science fiction author and screenwriter known for his work on television series such as Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Corbomite Maneuver
subject surface form:
The Corbomite Maneuver