Jobu
E911836
Jobu is the fictional voodoo deity that baseball player Pedro Cerrano prays to for help with his hitting in the film "Major League."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jobu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11206221 — 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: Jobu Context triple: [Pedro Cerrano, worships, Jobu]
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A.
N'Jobu
N'Jobu is a Wakandan prince and undercover War Dog operative, best known as Erik Killmonger's father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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B.
Jovie
Jovie is a cheerful and kind-hearted department store employee and Buddy's love interest in the Christmas comedy film "Elf."
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C.
Joko
Joko is a romanized variant of the Japanese name Jōkō, which can function as a given name or part of a title.
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D.
Gruer
Gruer is a character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," involved in the investigation central to the story's plot.
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E.
Djo
Djo is the psychedelic rock and synth-pop musical project of American actor and musician Joe Keery.
- 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: Jobu Target entity description: Jobu is the fictional voodoo deity that baseball player Pedro Cerrano prays to for help with his hitting in the film "Major League."
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A.
N'Jobu
N'Jobu is a Wakandan prince and undercover War Dog operative, best known as Erik Killmonger's father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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B.
Jovie
Jovie is a cheerful and kind-hearted department store employee and Buddy's love interest in the Christmas comedy film "Elf."
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C.
Joko
Joko is a romanized variant of the Japanese name Jōkō, which can function as a given name or part of a title.
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D.
Gruer
Gruer is a character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," involved in the investigation central to the story's plot.
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E.
Djo
Djo is the psychedelic rock and synth-pop musical project of American actor and musician Joe Keery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
fictional deity ⓘ voodoo deity ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Major League
ⓘ
Major League II ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cleveland Indians
ⓘ
Cleveland baseball team ⓘ baseball ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Major League ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
cult favorite among baseball fans
ⓘ
inspired fan-made Jobu idols ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Major League film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Major League
|
| firstAppearance | Major League ⓘ |
| genre | sports comedy ⓘ |
| influences | Pedro Cerrano's confidence ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativePurpose |
comic relief
ⓘ
symbol of superstition in sports ⓘ |
| notableQuoteAssociated | "It is very bad to steal Jobu's rum." ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | small idol ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | help with hitting ⓘ |
| religionInFiction | voodoo ⓘ |
| roleInStory | source of spiritual help for Pedro Cerrano ⓘ |
| typeOfFictionalElement | running gag ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | Pedro Cerrano ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
offerings of rum
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rituals in locker room ⓘ |
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: Jobu Description of subject: Jobu is the fictional voodoo deity that baseball player Pedro Cerrano prays to for help with his hitting in the film "Major League."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.