Robert Nelson Jacobs
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Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter best known for adapting the novel "Chocolat" into the acclaimed 2000 film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Nelson Jacobs canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759551 — 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: Robert Nelson Jacobs Context triple: [Chocolat, screenwriter, Robert Nelson Jacobs]
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A.
Walter C. Orem
Walter C. Orem was a railroad executive after whom the town of Orem, Utah, was named.
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B.
Gene L. Coon
Gene L. Coon was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work on the original Star Trek series, where he helped shape much of its mythology and tone.
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C.
John Joslyn
John Joslyn is an American entrepreneur and Titanic expert best known for organizing a major 1987 expedition to the wreck and later creating Titanic-themed attractions and media projects.
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D.
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.
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E.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
- 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: Robert Nelson Jacobs Target entity description: Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter best known for adapting the novel "Chocolat" into the acclaimed 2000 film.
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A.
Walter C. Orem
Walter C. Orem was a railroad executive after whom the town of Orem, Utah, was named.
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B.
Gene L. Coon
Gene L. Coon was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work on the original Star Trek series, where he helped shape much of its mythology and tone.
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C.
John Joslyn
John Joslyn is an American entrepreneur and Titanic expert best known for organizing a major 1987 expedition to the wreck and later creating Titanic-themed attractions and media projects.
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D.
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.
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E.
R. Bruce Lindsay
R. Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and acoustician known for his influential work in physical acoustics and contributions to the history and philosophy of science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Chocolat (novel)
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linked to:
Chocolat
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| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Joanne Harris ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | film screenplay ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableFor | adapting novels into screenplays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chocolat (2000 film)
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linked to:
Chocolat
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| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| wroteScreenplayFor |
Chocolat (2000 film)
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linked to:
Chocolat
|
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: Robert Nelson Jacobs Description of subject: Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter best known for adapting the novel "Chocolat" into the acclaimed 2000 film.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.