The Jackson/McHenry Company
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The Jackson/McHenry Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1991 crime thriller "New Jack City."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackson/McHenry Company | 2 |
| The Jackson/McHenry Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5588919 — 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: The Jackson/McHenry Company Context triple: [New Jack City, productionCompany, The Jackson/McHenry Company]
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A.
Dickson Manufacturing Company
Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
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B.
Humphrey-Weidman Company
The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
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C.
James Munroe and Company
James Munroe and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant literary and philosophical works, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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D.
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
The Kennedy/Marshall Company is a prominent American film and television production company founded by producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, known for backing acclaimed mainstream and prestige projects.
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E.
John W. Parker and Son
John W. Parker and Son was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing influential works of philosophy, science, and literature.
- 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: The Jackson/McHenry Company Target entity description: The Jackson/McHenry Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1991 crime thriller "New Jack City."
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A.
Dickson Manufacturing Company
Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
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B.
Humphrey-Weidman Company
The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
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C.
James Munroe and Company
James Munroe and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant literary and philosophical works, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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D.
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
The Kennedy/Marshall Company is a prominent American film and television production company founded by producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, known for backing acclaimed mainstream and prestige projects.
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E.
John W. Parker and Son
John W. Parker and Son was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing influential works of philosophy, science, and literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
ⓘ
film production company ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | crime thriller ⓘ |
| industry | film production ⓘ |
| notableWork | New Jack City ⓘ |
| produced | New Jack City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1991 ⓘ |
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: The Jackson/McHenry Company Description of subject: The Jackson/McHenry Company is a film production company best known for producing the 1991 crime thriller "New Jack City."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Jackson/McHenry Company
linked to: The Jackson/McHenry Company