Jon Shestack
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Jon Shestack is an American film producer known for working on a range of studio and independent movies, including the romantic comedy-drama "Dan in Real Life."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Shestack canonical | 8 |
| Jonathan Shestack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9969768 — 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: Jon Shestack Context triple: [Dan in Real Life, producer, Jon Shestack]
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A.
Craig Storper
Craig Storper is a screenwriter best known for writing the Western film "Open Range," directed by and starring Kevin Costner.
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B.
Andy Shernoff
Andy Shernoff is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the influential punk rock band The Dictators.
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C.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
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D.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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E.
Jo Eisinger
Jo Eisinger was an American screenwriter best known for his dark, psychologically complex film noir scripts, including classics like "Gilda" and "Night and the City."
- 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: Jon Shestack Target entity description: Jon Shestack is an American film producer known for working on a range of studio and independent movies, including the romantic comedy-drama "Dan in Real Life."
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A.
Craig Storper
Craig Storper is a screenwriter best known for writing the Western film "Open Range," directed by and starring Kevin Costner.
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B.
Andy Shernoff
Andy Shernoff is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the influential punk rock band The Dictators.
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C.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
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D.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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E.
Jo Eisinger
Jo Eisinger was an American screenwriter best known for his dark, psychologically complex film noir scripts, including classics like "Gilda" and "Night and the City."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action thriller film
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drama film ⓘ neo-noir thriller film ⓘ psychological thriller film ⓘ romantic comedy crime film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ teen comedy film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| name | Jon Shestack ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing independent films
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producing studio films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Air Force One
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Bring It On ⓘ Dan in Real Life ⓘ Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ⓘ The Babysitters ⓘ The Forgotten ⓘ The Last Seduction ⓘ The Mexican ⓘ |
| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| produced |
Air Force One
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Bring It On ⓘ Dan in Real Life ⓘ Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ⓘ The Babysitters ⓘ The Forgotten ⓘ The Last Seduction ⓘ The Mexican ⓘ |
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: Jon Shestack Description of subject: Jon Shestack is an American film producer known for working on a range of studio and independent movies, including the romantic comedy-drama "Dan in Real Life."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jon Shestack