Jacob
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Jacob is the family name of Piers Anthony, the prolific British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4666472 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Context triple: [Piers Anthony, familyName, Jacob]
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Jacob
Jacob is the central figure in the story "The Slave," around whom the narrative’s themes and events revolve.
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Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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Jacob
Jacob is the full first name of Jack Lew, the American attorney and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Target entity description: Jacob is the family name of Piers Anthony, the prolific British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
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Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of English actor Daniel Radcliffe, best known for portraying Harry Potter in the film series based on J.K. Rowling's novels.
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Jacob
Jacob is the first name of Jake Peavy, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and Cy Young Award winner.
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Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (88)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| birthName | Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-08-06 ⓘ |
| familyName | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy literature
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science fiction literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Piers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableSeries |
Apprentice Adept
NERFINISHED
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Bio of a Space Tyrant NERFINISHED ⓘ Cluster series NERFINISHED ⓘ Incarnations of Immortality NERFINISHED ⓘ Mode series NERFINISHED ⓘ Xanth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Spell for Chameleon
NERFINISHED
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A Tryst of Fate NERFINISHED ⓘ Air Apparent NERFINISHED ⓘ And Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Bearing an Hourglass NERFINISHED ⓘ Being a Green Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Board Stiff NERFINISHED ⓘ Centaur Aisle NERFINISHED ⓘ Cube Route NERFINISHED ⓘ Currant Events NERFINISHED ⓘ Demons Don't Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Esrever Doom NERFINISHED ⓘ Executive ⓘ Faith of Tarot NERFINISHED ⓘ Faun & Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Fire Sail NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Portraits NERFINISHED ⓘ For Love of Evil NERFINISHED ⓘ Geis of the Gargoyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghost Writer in the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ Golem in the Gears NERFINISHED ⓘ Harpy Thyme NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Cent NERFINISHED ⓘ Isis Orb NERFINISHED ⓘ Isle of View NERFINISHED ⓘ Jest Right NERFINISHED ⓘ Jumper Cable NERFINISHED ⓘ Juxtaposition NERFINISHED ⓘ Knot Gneiss NERFINISHED ⓘ Luck of the Draw NERFINISHED ⓘ Macroscope NERFINISHED ⓘ Man from Mundania NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercenary NERFINISHED ⓘ Nail It NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Mare NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogre, Ogre NERFINISHED ⓘ On a Pale Horse NERFINISHED ⓘ Orn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ox NERFINISHED ⓘ Pet Peeve NERFINISHED ⓘ Politician ⓘ Question Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ Reality Check NERFINISHED ⓘ Refugee ⓘ Rings of Ice NERFINISHED ⓘ Roc and a Hard Place NERFINISHED ⓘ Split Infinity NERFINISHED ⓘ Statesman ⓘ Stork Naked NERFINISHED ⓘ Swell Foop NERFINISHED ⓘ The Color of Her Panties NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dastard NERFINISHED ⓘ Two to the Fifth NERFINISHED ⓘ Up In A Heaval NERFINISHED ⓘ Vale of the Vole NERFINISHED ⓘ Victorious NERFINISHED ⓘ Vision of Tarot NERFINISHED ⓘ Well-Tempered Clavicle NERFINISHED ⓘ Wielding a Red Sword NERFINISHED ⓘ With a Tangled Skein NERFINISHED ⓘ Xanth series NERFINISHED ⓘ Xone of Contention NERFINISHED ⓘ Yon Ill Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ Zombie Lover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
fantasy writer
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novelist ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Jacob is the family name of Piers Anthony, the prolific British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.