Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt
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Jackie Cogan is the professional enforcer portrayed by Brad Pitt in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507771 — 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: Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt Context triple: [Killing Them Softly, characterPlayedBy, Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt]
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A.
Josie James Caan
Josie James Caan is the daughter of American actor Scott Caan and his partner Kacy Byxbee.
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B.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in films such as "ATL," "Idlewild," and various television comedies.
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C.
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper was an American actor and former child star best known for his early roles in the Our Gang comedies and later as Perry White in the Superman films.
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D.
Coogan
Coogan is a surname most prominently associated with English actor, comedian, and writer Steve Coogan.
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E.
Weston Coppola Cage
Weston Coppola Cage is an American actor and musician, best known as the son of actor Nicolas Cage and for his work in metal bands and occasional film roles.
- 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: Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt Target entity description: Jackie Cogan is the professional enforcer portrayed by Brad Pitt in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
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A.
Josie James Caan
Josie James Caan is the daughter of American actor Scott Caan and his partner Kacy Byxbee.
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B.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in films such as "ATL," "Idlewild," and various television comedies.
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C.
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper was an American actor and former child star best known for his early roles in the Our Gang comedies and later as Perry White in the Superman films.
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D.
Coogan
Coogan is a surname most prominently associated with English actor, comedian, and writer Steve Coogan.
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E.
Weston Coppola Cage
Weston Coppola Cage is an American actor and musician, best known as the son of actor Nicolas Cage and for his work in metal bands and occasional film roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
enforcer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ hitman ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Killing Them Softly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedActor |
James Gandolfini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ray Liotta NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Scoot McNairy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | mob-run card games ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel Cogan's Trade ⓘ |
| createdBy | George V. Higgins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Andrew Dominik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
crime
ⓘ
drama ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| genre | crime film character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | investigates robbery of mob-protected poker game ⓘ |
| notableQuote | "America's not a country. It's just a business." ⓘ |
| occupation |
contract killer
ⓘ
professional enforcer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ professional ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brad Pitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
post-financial-crisis economy ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | firearms ⓘ |
| worksFor | organized crime syndicate ⓘ |
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: Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt Description of subject: Jackie Cogan is the professional enforcer portrayed by Brad Pitt in the crime film "Killing Them Softly."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.