Jason Gedrick
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Jason Gedrick is an American actor best known for his breakout role in 1980s action films and later work in television dramas such as "Murder One" and "Boomtown."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Gedrick canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6464852 — 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: Jason Gedrick Context triple: [Iron Eagle, leadActor, Jason Gedrick]
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A.
Andy Fickman
Andy Fickman is an American film and television director known for family-friendly comedies and energetic, commercially successful studio movies.
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B.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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C.
Josh Gudwin
Josh Gudwin is a Grammy-winning Canadian recording and mixing engineer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Justin Bieber.
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D.
Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- 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: Jason Gedrick Target entity description: Jason Gedrick is an American actor best known for his breakout role in 1980s action films and later work in television dramas such as "Murder One" and "Boomtown."
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A.
Andy Fickman
Andy Fickman is an American film and television director known for family-friendly comedies and energetic, commercially successful studio movies.
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B.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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C.
Josh Gudwin
Josh Gudwin is a Grammy-winning Canadian recording and mixing engineer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Justin Bieber.
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D.
Gabe Plotkin
Gabe Plotkin is an American hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Melvin Capital Management and a co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Backdraft
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Boomtown ⓘ Bosch ⓘ Desperate Housewives ⓘ Dexter ⓘ Iron Eagle ⓘ Luck ⓘ Major Crimes ⓘ Murder One ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-02-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Gedrick ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jason ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity |
Lithuanian descent
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Polish descent ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jason Gedrick ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Doug Masters in "Iron Eagle"
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Officer Tom Turcotte in "Boomtown" ⓘ
linked to:
Officer Tom Turcotte
Ted Warshaw in "Murder One" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Backdraft
ⓘ
Boomtown ⓘ Bosch ⓘ Desperate Housewives ⓘ Iron Eagle ⓘ Murder One ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Dana Lavas ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
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: Jason Gedrick Description of subject: Jason Gedrick is an American actor best known for his breakout role in 1980s action films and later work in television dramas such as "Murder One" and "Boomtown."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.