Jack Goodman
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Jack Goodman is a character from the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London," known as the ill-fated friend whose death triggers the movie’s supernatural events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Goodman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514197 — 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: Jack Goodman Context triple: [An American Werewolf in London, mainCharacter, Jack Goodman]
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A.
Josh Astrachan
Josh Astrachan is a film producer best known for his work on acclaimed independent and prestige films, including the ensemble mystery drama "Gosford Park."
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B.
Maury Winetrobe
Maury Winetrobe is a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "Pocketful of Miracles."
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C.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
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D.
Adam Walinsky
Adam Walinsky is an American lawyer, speechwriter, and political advisor best known for his close work with Robert F. Kennedy during the 1960s.
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E.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
- 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: Jack Goodman Target entity description: Jack Goodman is a character from the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London," known as the ill-fated friend whose death triggers the movie’s supernatural events.
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A.
Josh Astrachan
Josh Astrachan is a film producer best known for his work on acclaimed independent and prestige films, including the ensemble mystery drama "Gosford Park."
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B.
Maury Winetrobe
Maury Winetrobe is a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions such as "Pocketful of Miracles."
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C.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
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D.
Adam Walinsky
Adam Walinsky is an American lawyer, speechwriter, and political advisor best known for his close work with Robert F. Kennedy during the 1960s.
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E.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Jack Goodman Description of subject: Jack Goodman is a character from the horror-comedy film "An American Werewolf in London," known as the ill-fated friend whose death triggers the movie’s supernatural events.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.