Don Jakoby
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Don Jakoby is an American screenwriter known for his work on science fiction and action films, including contributions to movies like "Blue Thunder" and "Arachnophobia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Jakoby canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188302 — 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: Don Jakoby Context triple: [Blue Thunder, screenwriter, Don Jakoby]
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A.
Don Otten
Don Otten was an American professional basketball center who played in the early years of the NBA, including for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks.
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B.
Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann was an influential American jazz flutist and bandleader known for pioneering the fusion of jazz with world music styles such as Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern music.
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C.
Jo Johnson
Jo Johnson is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament who has held ministerial roles, particularly in higher education and transport, and is the younger brother of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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D.
John Melendez
John Melendez is an American comedian, writer, and radio personality best known as "Stuttering John" from The Howard Stern Show and as a longtime staff member and announcer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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E.
Janno Lieber
Janno Lieber is an American public official and transportation executive who leads New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, overseeing the city’s vast subway, bus, and commuter rail systems.
- 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: Don Jakoby Target entity description: Don Jakoby is an American screenwriter known for his work on science fiction and action films, including contributions to movies like "Blue Thunder" and "Arachnophobia."
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A.
Don Otten
Don Otten was an American professional basketball center who played in the early years of the NBA, including for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks.
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B.
Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann was an influential American jazz flutist and bandleader known for pioneering the fusion of jazz with world music styles such as Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern music.
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C.
Jo Johnson
Jo Johnson is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament who has held ministerial roles, particularly in higher education and transport, and is the younger brother of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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D.
John Melendez
John Melendez is an American comedian, writer, and radio personality best known as "Stuttering John" from The Howard Stern Show and as a longtime staff member and announcer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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E.
Janno Lieber
Janno Lieber is an American public official and transportation executive who leads New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, overseeing the city’s vast subway, bus, and commuter rail systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arachnophobia
ⓘ
Blue Thunder ⓘ Evolution ⓘ Invaders from Mars (1986 film) ⓘ Lifeforce ⓘ
linked to:
Lifeforce (1985 film)
Vampires ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn |
action films
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horror films ⓘ science fiction films ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
Arachnophobia
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Blue Thunder ⓘ Evolution ⓘ Invaders from Mars (1986 film) ⓘ Lifeforce ⓘ
linked to:
Lifeforce (1985 film)
Vampires ⓘ |
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: Don Jakoby Description of subject: Don Jakoby is an American screenwriter known for his work on science fiction and action films, including contributions to movies like "Blue Thunder" and "Arachnophobia."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.