Jack Parsons
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Jack Parsons was an American rocket engineer and occultist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and made pioneering contributions to early rocket technology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Parsons canonical | 2 |
| Jack Parsons (Strange Angel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8466569 — 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 Parsons Context triple: [Parsons, hasNotableBearer, Jack Parsons]
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A.
Alan Le May
Alan Le May was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for writing the Western novel that inspired the classic film "The Searchers."
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B.
John Garvin Weir
John Garvin Weir is an American figure skater and television commentator known for his artistic performances and flamboyant style on and off the ice.
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C.
Alvin Kersh
Alvin Kersh is a high-ranking FBI official in the television series "The X-Files," known for his often adversarial oversight of agents Mulder and Scully.
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D.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American astronaut, aquanaut, and test pilot best known as one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and the second American to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson was an early 20th-century African American poet and writer whose work anticipated themes of the Harlem Renaissance and contributed significantly to Black literary modernism.
- 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 Parsons Target entity description: Jack Parsons was an American rocket engineer and occultist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and made pioneering contributions to early rocket technology.
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A.
Alan Le May
Alan Le May was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for writing the Western novel that inspired the classic film "The Searchers."
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B.
John Garvin Weir
John Garvin Weir is an American figure skater and television commentator known for his artistic performances and flamboyant style on and off the ice.
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C.
Alvin Kersh
Alvin Kersh is a high-ranking FBI official in the television series "The X-Files," known for his often adversarial oversight of agents Mulder and Scully.
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D.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American astronaut, aquanaut, and test pilot best known as one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts and the second American to orbit the Earth.
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E.
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson was an early 20th-century African American poet and writer whose work anticipated themes of the Harlem Renaissance and contributed significantly to Black literary modernism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemist
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human ⓘ occultist ⓘ pioneer of rocketry ⓘ rocket engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Caltech
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linked to:
California Institute of Technology
U.S. military rocket programs ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | explosion ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Aerojet Engineering Corporation
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linked to:
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-10-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1952-06-17 ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
ⓘ
linked to:
California Institute of Technology
|
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Parsons ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
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occultism ⓘ rocket propulsion ⓘ solid rocket fuels ⓘ |
| followerOf | Aleister Crowley ⓘ |
| fullName | John Whiteside Parsons ⓘ |
| genre | esoteric writing ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | modern solid rocket booster design ⓘ |
| heritage | American ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the U.S. space program ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology
ⓘ
Ordo Templi Orientis ⓘ Suicide Squad (Caltech rocketry group) ⓘ |
| nickname | Jack ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering work in American rocketry ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Babalon Working (occult ritual series) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword
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development of solid-fuel rocket propellants ⓘ early Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO) rockets ⓘ |
| partner | Marjorie Cameron ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pasadena, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Pasadena
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| positionHeld | leader of the Agape Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis in California ⓘ |
| religion | Thelema ⓘ |
| residence |
Pasadena, California, United States
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linked to:
Pasadena
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Parsons Smith ⓘ |
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 Parsons Description of subject: Jack Parsons was an American rocket engineer and occultist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and made pioneering contributions to early rocket technology.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.