Jack Hofstra
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Jack Hofstra is a film editor known for his work on the Western action movie "Young Guns."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Hofstra canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789332 — 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 Hofstra Context triple: [Young Guns, editor, Jack Hofstra]
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A.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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B.
David Frankfurter
David Frankfurter was a Jewish medical student best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936, an event later revisited in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk."
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C.
Howard Gobioff
Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
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D.
William Margulies
William Margulies was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television productions.
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E.
Daniel H. Lowenstein
Daniel H. Lowenstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his pioneering work in election law and political reform.
- 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 Hofstra Target entity description: Jack Hofstra is a film editor known for his work on the Western action movie "Young Guns."
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A.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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B.
David Frankfurter
David Frankfurter was a Jewish medical student best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936, an event later revisited in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk."
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C.
Howard Gobioff
Howard Gobioff was a computer scientist and early Google engineer best known as a co-author of the influential Google File System paper that helped shape modern distributed storage systems.
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D.
William Margulies
William Margulies was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television productions.
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E.
Daniel H. Lowenstein
Daniel H. Lowenstein is a prominent American legal scholar known for his pioneering work in election law and political reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
action film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Young Guns
ⓘ
film editing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | Young Guns ⓘ |
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 Hofstra Description of subject: Jack Hofstra is a film editor known for his work on the Western action movie "Young Guns."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.