Jacob
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Jacob is the given name of Jacob Coxey, an American political figure best known for leading the 1894 protest march on Washington known as "Coxey's Army."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10518869 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Jacob Context triple: [Jacob Coxey, givenName, Jacob]
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
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Jacob
Jacob is the central figure in the story "The Slave," around whom the narrative’s themes and events revolve.
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Jacob
Jacob is the first name of Jake Peavy, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and Cy Young Award winner.
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Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of English actor Daniel Radcliffe, best known for portraying Harry Potter in the film series based on J.K. Rowling's novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Jacob Target entity description: Jacob is the given name of Jacob Coxey, an American political figure best known for leading the 1894 protest march on Washington known as "Coxey's Army."
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Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of George Holyoake, a notable 19th-century English secularist and social reformer.
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Jacob
Jacob is the full first name of Jack Lew, the American attorney and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
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Jacob
Jacob is a male given name of Hebrew origin commonly used in many English-speaking and international cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| candidateForOffice |
Governor of Ohio
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ United States Senator from Ohio ⓘ |
| causeAdvocated |
monetary reform in the United States
ⓘ
unemployment relief through public works ⓘ |
| child |
Jacob Daniel Coxey Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Jacob Coxey
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1854-04-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-05-18 ⓘ |
| describedAs |
American political figure
ⓘ
leader of a protest march on Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
German American
ⓘ
linked to:
German Americans
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| familyName | Coxey ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1894 protest march on Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
leading Coxey's Army ⓘ |
| movement |
Coxey's Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Coxey's Army march of 1894
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| notableEvent | arrest for trespassing on the U.S. Capitol grounds in 1894 ⓘ |
| notableWork | proposals for government-funded road-building programs ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Coxey's Army march on Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
linked to:
Coxey's Army march of 1894
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| placeOfBirth | Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Massillon, Ohio
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linked to:
Massillon, Ohio, United States
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| politicalActivity |
advocacy of non-interest-bearing paper money
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advocacy of public works programs ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
People's Party ⓘ Socialist Party of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mayor of Massillon, Ohio ⓘ |
| residence |
Massillon, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Massillon, Ohio, United States
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| spouse |
Anna Medley
ⓘ
Henrietta Jones ⓘ Mary Hinaman ⓘ |
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: Jacob Description of subject: Jacob is the given name of Jacob Coxey, an American political figure best known for leading the 1894 protest march on Washington known as "Coxey's Army."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.