Jacob Kershner
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Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Kershner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1782667 — 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: Jacob Kershner Context triple: [Emma Goldman, spouse, Jacob Kershner]
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Bert I. Gordon
Bert I. Gordon was an American filmmaker best known for his low-budget 1950s–60s science fiction and horror movies featuring giant creatures, earning him the nickname "Mr. B.I.G."
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E.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
- 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: Jacob Kershner Target entity description: Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
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A.
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg is an American photographer and film director known for his influential work in 1960s music photography and for directing acclaimed films such as "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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B.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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C.
Tom Benedek
Tom Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Cocoon."
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D.
Bert I. Gordon
Bert I. Gordon was an American filmmaker best known for his low-budget 1950s–60s science fiction and horror movies featuring giant creatures, earning him the nickname "Mr. B.I.G."
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E.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovementIndirectly | anarchism ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| ethnicCommunityContext | Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in the United States ⓘ |
| historicalDocumentationLevel | sparsely documented ⓘ |
| knownFrom | Emma Goldman’s autobiographical writings ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment |
English
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| maritalStatusWithEmmaGoldman | divorced ⓘ |
| marriageCharacterization |
brief
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troubled ⓘ |
| marriageWithEmmaGoldmanEndApprox | 1889 ⓘ |
| marriageWithEmmaGoldmanStartApprox | 1887 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of Emma Goldman ⓘ |
| relationshipToEmmaGoldman | first husband ⓘ |
| sourceOfNotability | relationship to Emma Goldman ⓘ |
| spouse | Emma Goldman ⓘ |
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 Kershner Description of subject: Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.