Jeffrey Zaslow
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Jeffrey Zaslow was an American author and journalist best known for co-authoring inspirational bestsellers such as "The Last Lecture" and other notable nonfiction works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Zaslow canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2900770 — 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: Jeffrey Zaslow Context triple: [Sully, basedOnAuthor, Jeffrey Zaslow]
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A.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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B.
Michael Starobin
Michael Starobin is a Tony Award–winning American orchestrator and arranger known for his work on numerous Broadway musicals.
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C.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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D.
Jesse Shatkin
Jesse Shatkin is a Grammy-nominated American record producer and songwriter known for his work with artists like Sia, Kelly Clarkson, and One Direction.
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E.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
- 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: Jeffrey Zaslow Target entity description: Jeffrey Zaslow was an American author and journalist best known for co-authoring inspirational bestsellers such as "The Last Lecture" and other notable nonfiction works.
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A.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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B.
Michael Starobin
Michael Starobin is a Tony Award–winning American orchestrator and arranger known for his work on numerous Broadway musicals.
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C.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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D.
Jesse Shatkin
Jesse Shatkin is a Grammy-nominated American record producer and songwriter known for his work with artists like Sia, Kelly Clarkson, and One Direction.
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E.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| author | Jeffrey Zaslow self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived | column-writing award from The Wall Street Journal (contest to replace Ann Landers) ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Chesley Sullenberger
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Gabrielle Giffords ⓘ Jeffrey Zaslow self-linksurface differs ⓘ Mark E. Kelly ⓘ
surface form:
Mark Kelly
Randy Pausch ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | The Wall Street Journal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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non-fiction literature ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
inspirational literature
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasGenre | biographical writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-authoring inspirational bestsellers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope
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Highest Duty ⓘ The Girls from Ames ⓘ The Last Lecture ⓘ The Magic Room ⓘ column about life and relationships ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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columnist ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | columnist at The Wall Street Journal ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
family relationships
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friendship ⓘ inspirational life stories ⓘ personal courage ⓘ |
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: Jeffrey Zaslow Description of subject: Jeffrey Zaslow was an American author and journalist best known for co-authoring inspirational bestsellers such as "The Last Lecture" and other notable nonfiction works.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Last Lecture
subject surface form:
The Girls from Ames