Jacob Cerf
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Jacob Cerf is the reincarnated 18th-century French Jewish peddler and narrator at the heart of Rebecca Miller’s novel "Jacob’s Folly," whose perspective drives the book’s exploration of identity, faith, and modern life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Cerf canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6438138 — 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: Jacob Cerf Context triple: [Jacob’s Folly, centralCharacter, Jacob Cerf]
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A.
Gil Avérous
Gil Avérous is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the city of Châteauroux.
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B.
Leo Feist
Leo Feist was an American music publisher and entrepreneur who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century sheet music and popular song industry.
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C.
Stephen Hamel
Stephen Hamel is a film producer known for his work on science fiction and genre films, including the space-set romance thriller "Passengers."
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D.
David Janollari
David Janollari is an American television producer and executive known for his work on acclaimed series such as Six Feet Under.
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E.
Michael Cerenzie
Michael Cerenzie is a film producer known for his work on independent and genre films in Hollywood.
- 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: Jacob Cerf Target entity description: Jacob Cerf is the reincarnated 18th-century French Jewish peddler and narrator at the heart of Rebecca Miller’s novel "Jacob’s Folly," whose perspective drives the book’s exploration of identity, faith, and modern life.
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A.
Gil Avérous
Gil Avérous is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the city of Châteauroux.
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B.
Leo Feist
Leo Feist was an American music publisher and entrepreneur who became a prominent figure in the early 20th-century sheet music and popular song industry.
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C.
Stephen Hamel
Stephen Hamel is a film producer known for his work on science fiction and genre films, including the space-set romance thriller "Passengers."
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D.
David Janollari
David Janollari is an American television producer and executive known for his work on acclaimed series such as Six Feet Under.
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E.
Michael Cerenzie
Michael Cerenzie is a film producer known for his work on independent and genre films in Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Jacob’s Folly ⓘ |
| authorOfWork | Rebecca Miller ⓘ |
| centralThemeConnection |
faith
ⓘ
identity ⓘ modern life ⓘ |
| centuryOfOriginalLife | 18th century ⓘ |
| createdBy | Rebecca Miller ⓘ |
| culturalBackground | French Jewish ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narratorOf | Jacob’s Folly ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation | peddler ⓘ |
| originalLifeLocation | France ⓘ |
| reincarnatedIn | modern era ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary narrator
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protagonist ⓘ |
| temporalStatus | reincarnated soul ⓘ |
| workGenre | novel ⓘ |
| workTitle | Jacob’s Folly ⓘ |
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: Jacob Cerf Description of subject: Jacob Cerf is the reincarnated 18th-century French Jewish peddler and narrator at the heart of Rebecca Miller’s novel "Jacob’s Folly," whose perspective drives the book’s exploration of identity, faith, and modern life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.