Jerry Mulligan
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Jerry Mulligan is the charismatic American ex-GI and aspiring painter living in postwar Paris who serves as the romantic lead in the musical film "An American in Paris."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Mulligan canonical | 1 |
| Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6134411 — 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: Jerry Mulligan Context triple: [An American in Paris, hasMainCharacter, Jerry Mulligan]
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A.
Buddy Manucci
Buddy Manucci is the tough, streetwise New York City cop who leads an undercover police unit in the 1973 crime thriller film "The Seven-Ups."
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
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D.
Ulysses Everett McGill
Ulysses Everett McGill is the fast-talking, self-styled intellectual escapee who leads a trio of convicts on a comedic odyssey through 1930s Mississippi in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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E.
Frank Heart
Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
- 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: Jerry Mulligan Target entity description: Jerry Mulligan is the charismatic American ex-GI and aspiring painter living in postwar Paris who serves as the romantic lead in the musical film "An American in Paris."
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A.
Buddy Manucci
Buddy Manucci is the tough, streetwise New York City cop who leads an undercover police unit in the 1973 crime thriller film "The Seven-Ups."
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B.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
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C.
John Maraganore
John Maraganore is a biotechnology executive best known as the founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the development of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics.
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D.
Ulysses Everett McGill
Ulysses Everett McGill is the fast-talking, self-styled intellectual escapee who leads a trio of convicts on a comedic odyssey through 1930s Mississippi in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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E.
Frank Heart
Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| artFormPracticed | painting ⓘ |
| basedOn | American ex-GI archetype ⓘ |
| characterIn | An American in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composerOfWork | George Gershwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Vincente Minnelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDistributorOfWork | Loew's Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmStudioOfWork | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical film ⓘ |
| introducedInWork | An American in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricistOfWork | Ira Gershwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | aspiring artist ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | charismatic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gene Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| romanticInterestIn | Lise Bouvier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticRole | romantic lead ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Alan Jay Lerner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| yearOfIntroduction | 1951 ⓘ |
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: Jerry Mulligan Description of subject: Jerry Mulligan is the charismatic American ex-GI and aspiring painter living in postwar Paris who serves as the romantic lead in the musical film "An American in Paris."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris