Jack Terry
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Jack Terry is the sound technician protagonist of Brian De Palma’s thriller film "Blow Out," who becomes entangled in a political conspiracy after accidentally recording evidence of a murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Terry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493770 — 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 Terry Context triple: [Blow Out, mainCharacter, Jack Terry]
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A.
Terry Burnham
Terry Burnham was an American child actress best known for her role in the classic "Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare as a Child."
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B.
Terry Richard
Terry Richard is known as a former spouse of American singer and actor Eddie Fisher.
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C.
Terry Brands
Terry Brands is a former American Olympic wrestler and prominent collegiate wrestling coach known for his long-time role helping lead the University of Iowa’s powerhouse wrestling program.
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D.
Terry Martin
Terry Martin is an American local government official who has served as the mayor of Moraine, Ohio.
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E.
Terry Thorne
Terry Thorne is the skilled professional hostage negotiator portrayed by Russell Crowe in the thriller film "Proof of Life."
- 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 Terry Target entity description: Jack Terry is the sound technician protagonist of Brian De Palma’s thriller film "Blow Out," who becomes entangled in a political conspiracy after accidentally recording evidence of a murder.
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A.
Terry Burnham
Terry Burnham was an American child actress best known for her role in the classic "Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare as a Child."
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B.
Terry Richard
Terry Richard is known as a former spouse of American singer and actor Eddie Fisher.
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C.
Terry Brands
Terry Brands is a former American Olympic wrestler and prominent collegiate wrestling coach known for his long-time role helping lead the University of Iowa’s powerhouse wrestling program.
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D.
Terry Martin
Terry Martin is an American local government official who has served as the mayor of Moraine, Ohio.
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E.
Terry Thorne
Terry Thorne is the skilled professional hostage negotiator portrayed by Russell Crowe in the thriller film "Proof of Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Blow Out ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burke
ⓘ
Manny Karp ⓘ Sally Bedina ⓘ |
| createdBy | Brian De Palma ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Blow Out universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Blow Out
|
| filmReleaseYearOfFirstAppearance | 1981 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Blow Out ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
neo-noir
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| involvedIn | political conspiracy ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| motivation | to uncover the truth behind the apparent accident ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
amateur investigator
ⓘ
witness to a staged car accident ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | accidentally records evidence of a murder ⓘ |
| occupation | sound technician ⓘ |
| partOf | Blow Out cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Travolta ⓘ |
| primarySkill |
audio editing
ⓘ
sound recording ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Blow Out ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| usesEquipment |
directional microphone
ⓘ
tape recorder ⓘ |
| worksOn | low-budget horror films ⓘ |
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 Terry Description of subject: Jack Terry is the sound technician protagonist of Brian De Palma’s thriller film "Blow Out," who becomes entangled in a political conspiracy after accidentally recording evidence of a murder.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.