David Jacobs
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David Jacobs is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the prime-time soap operas "Knots Landing" and co-creating "Dallas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Jacobs canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7530213 — 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: David Jacobs Context triple: [Knots Landing, creator, David Jacobs]
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A.
Charles Jacobs
Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
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B.
Larry Jacobson
Larry Jacobson is a television producer best known for his role as an executive producer on the late-night talk program "The Jay Leno Show."
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C.
David Schiff
David Schiff is a contemporary American composer and music scholar known for his genre-blending works and writings on modern music.
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D.
Jay Rabinowitz
Jay Rabinowitz is a film editor known for his work on numerous feature films, including the science-fiction thriller "The Adjustment Bureau."
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E.
Gary E. Jacobs
Gary E. Jacobs is an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his leadership roles in education-focused organizations and as a member of the family behind Qualcomm's founding.
- 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: David Jacobs Target entity description: David Jacobs is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the prime-time soap operas "Knots Landing" and co-creating "Dallas."
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A.
Charles Jacobs
Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
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B.
Larry Jacobson
Larry Jacobson is a television producer best known for his role as an executive producer on the late-night talk program "The Jay Leno Show."
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C.
David Schiff
David Schiff is a contemporary American composer and music scholar known for his genre-blending works and writings on modern music.
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D.
Jay Rabinowitz
Jay Rabinowitz is a film editor known for his work on numerous feature films, including the science-fiction thriller "The Adjustment Bureau."
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E.
Gary E. Jacobs
Gary E. Jacobs is an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his leadership roles in education-focused organizations and as a member of the family behind Qualcomm's founding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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television producer ⓘ television series ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from Alzheimer’s disease ⓘ |
| coCreated | Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| created |
Four Corners
NERFINISHED
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Knots Landing NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-08-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-08-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
screenwriting
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| fullName | David Arnold Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
prime-time drama
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soap opera ⓘ soap opera ⓘ soap opera ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating the television series Dallas
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creating the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Aaron Spelling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dallas
NERFINISHED
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Four Corners NERFINISHED ⓘ Knots Landing NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lynn Pleshette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: David Jacobs Description of subject: David Jacobs is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the prime-time soap operas "Knots Landing" and co-creating "Dallas."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.