Jake Scully
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Jake Scully is the main protagonist of Brian De Palma’s 1984 thriller film "Body Double," a struggling actor who becomes entangled in a voyeuristic murder mystery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jake Scully canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493841 — 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: Jake Scully Context triple: [Body Double, featuresCharacter, Jake Scully]
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A.
Matt O’Brien
Matt O’Brien is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock’s breakthrough album "Devil Without a Cause."
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B.
Vin Scully
Vin Scully was a legendary American sportscaster best known for his six-decade tenure as the iconic play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Joe Kelly
Joe Kelly is a television writer and producer best known as one of the co-creators of the acclaimed comedy series "Ted Lasso."
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D.
Josh Caray
Josh Caray is a sportscaster and member of the Caray family broadcasting dynasty, known for his work calling baseball games.
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E.
Dwight McCarthy
Dwight McCarthy is a tough, morally driven antihero from Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel series, known for his violent past, protective nature, and central role in the storylines involving Old Town.
- 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: Jake Scully Target entity description: Jake Scully is the main protagonist of Brian De Palma’s 1984 thriller film "Body Double," a struggling actor who becomes entangled in a voyeuristic murder mystery.
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A.
Matt O’Brien
Matt O’Brien is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock’s breakthrough album "Devil Without a Cause."
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B.
Vin Scully
Vin Scully was a legendary American sportscaster best known for his six-decade tenure as the iconic play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Joe Kelly
Joe Kelly is a television writer and producer best known as one of the co-creators of the acclaimed comedy series "Ted Lasso."
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D.
Josh Caray
Josh Caray is a sportscaster and member of the Caray family broadcasting dynasty, known for his work calling baseball games.
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E.
Dwight McCarthy
Dwight McCarthy is a tough, morally driven antihero from Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel series, known for his violent past, protective nature, and central role in the storylines involving Old Town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Body Double ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood ⓘ |
| characterArc |
becomes obsessed with a woman he spies on
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investigates a suspected murder ⓘ |
| characterTrait | struggling actor ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Brian De Palma ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
neo-noir
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Body Double ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDirectorOfWork | Brian De Palma ⓘ |
| involvedIn | voyeuristic murder mystery ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOf | Body Double ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
point-of-view character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being framed in a murder plot
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voyeurism theme involvement ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | Body Double cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Craig Wasson ⓘ |
| setInUniverse |
Body Double universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Body Double
|
| themeInvolvement |
deception
ⓘ
identity ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
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: Jake Scully Description of subject: Jake Scully is the main protagonist of Brian De Palma’s 1984 thriller film "Body Double," a struggling actor who becomes entangled in a voyeuristic murder mystery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.