The Man Jack
E631638
The Man Jack is the mysterious, ruthless assassin who murders Bod’s family and relentlessly hunts him throughout Neil Gaiman’s novel "The Graveyard Book."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Man Jack canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6944544 — 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: The Man Jack Context triple: [The Graveyard Book, hasCharacter, The Man Jack]
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A.
The Jack
The Jack is the nickname for Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, the former home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins (now Commanders) in Landover, Maryland.
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B.
The Jack
"The Jack" is a bluesy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its suggestive lyrics and prominent place in their early live performances.
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C.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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D.
The Man
The Man is a film featuring actor Richard Gant in a significant role.
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E.
The Man
The Man is a poem by Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky that explores themes of individuality, alienation, and modern urban life in his characteristically bold, experimental style.
- 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: The Man Jack Target entity description: The Man Jack is the mysterious, ruthless assassin who murders Bod’s family and relentlessly hunts him throughout Neil Gaiman’s novel "The Graveyard Book."
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A.
The Jack
The Jack is the nickname for Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, the former home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins (now Commanders) in Landover, Maryland.
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B.
The Jack
"The Jack" is a bluesy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its suggestive lyrics and prominent place in their early live performances.
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C.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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D.
The Man
The Man is a film featuring actor Richard Gant in a significant role.
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E.
The Man
The Man is a poem by Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky that explores themes of individuality, alienation, and modern urban life in his characteristically bold, experimental style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
assassin ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Jacks of All Trades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Graveyard Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | fantasy novel ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
mysterious
ⓘ
persistent ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Nobody Owens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Neil Gaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Graveyard Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | to kill Nobody Owens ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | the Jacks of All Trades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| murders | Bod's family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives central conflict of "The Graveyard Book" ⓘ |
| nationality | British (implied by setting) ⓘ |
| occupation | assassin ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | standalone work "The Graveyard Book" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist in "The Graveyard Book" ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | English town and graveyard ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| targets | Nobody Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponUsed | knife ⓘ |
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: The Man Jack Description of subject: The Man Jack is the mysterious, ruthless assassin who murders Bod’s family and relentlessly hunts him throughout Neil Gaiman’s novel "The Graveyard Book."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.