Jerusha Hess
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Jerusha Hess is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing quirky comedies such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerusha Hess canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906758 — 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: Jerusha Hess Context triple: [Nacho Libre, screenwriter, Jerusha Hess]
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A.
Jerusha Barden Smith
Jerusha Barden Smith was the first wife of early Latter-day Saint leader Hyrum Smith and an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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B.
Jerusha Edwards
Jerusha Edwards was a daughter of prominent American theologians Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont Edwards in 18th-century New England.
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C.
Mary Ezra
Mary Ezra was the wife of Anglo-Irish poet and playwright Louis MacNeice, associated with his early personal and literary life.
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D.
Jessie Elster
Jessie Elster is a central fictional character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Point Omega," around whom key elements of the story’s mystery and psychological tension revolve.
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E.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
- 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: Jerusha Hess Target entity description: Jerusha Hess is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing quirky comedies such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
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A.
Jerusha Barden Smith
Jerusha Barden Smith was the first wife of early Latter-day Saint leader Hyrum Smith and an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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B.
Jerusha Edwards
Jerusha Edwards was a daughter of prominent American theologians Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont Edwards in 18th-century New England.
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C.
Mary Ezra
Mary Ezra was the wife of Anglo-Irish poet and playwright Louis MacNeice, associated with his early personal and literary life.
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D.
Jessie Elster
Jessie Elster is a central fictional character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Point Omega," around whom key elements of the story’s mystery and psychological tension revolve.
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E.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Jared Hess
NERFINISHED
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Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOf | Austenland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brigham Young University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy film ⓘ comedy film ⓘ comedy film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerusha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | quirky comedies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Austenland
NERFINISHED
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Don Verdean NERFINISHED ⓘ Gentlemen Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacho Libre NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jared Hess
NERFINISHED
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Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusha Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
Austenland
NERFINISHED
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Don Verdean NERFINISHED ⓘ Gentlemen Broncos NERFINISHED ⓘ Nacho Libre NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Utah 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: Jerusha Hess Description of subject: Jerusha Hess is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing quirky comedies such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.