Jake Kasdan
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Jake Kasdan is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and "Bad Teacher."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jake Kasdan canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T992381 — 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 Kasdan Context triple: [Lawrence Kasdan, child, Jake Kasdan]
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A.
Jonathan Kasdan
Jonathan Kasdan is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing the Star Wars film "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and for being the son of filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.
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B.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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C.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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D.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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E.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
- 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 Kasdan Target entity description: Jake Kasdan is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and "Bad Teacher."
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A.
Jonathan Kasdan
Jonathan Kasdan is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing the Star Wars film "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and for being the son of filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.
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B.
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work on major films such as *The Empire Strikes Back*, *Raiders of the Lost Ark*, and *The Big Chill*.
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C.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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D.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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E.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Kasdan Description of subject: Jake Kasdan is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," and "Bad Teacher."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017 film)
subject surface form:
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019 film)