Michael Jacoby
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Michael Jacoby was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1936 adventure drama "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Jacoby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7396134 — 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: Michael Jacoby Context triple: [The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film), screenwriter, Michael Jacoby]
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A.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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B.
Jeff Kirschenbaum
Jeff Kirschenbaum is a Hollywood film producer known for working on major studio features, including big-budget family and action movies.
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C.
Chris Applebaum
Chris Applebaum is an American music video director known for creating high-profile videos for major pop and rock artists.
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D.
Jordan Bratman
Jordan Bratman is an American music executive and producer best known for his work in the recording industry and his former marriage to pop singer Christina Aguilera.
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E.
Max Perlich
Max Perlich is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often quirky supporting roles in independent films and television series since the late 1980s.
- 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: Michael Jacoby Target entity description: Michael Jacoby was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1936 adventure drama "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
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A.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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B.
Jeff Kirschenbaum
Jeff Kirschenbaum is a Hollywood film producer known for working on major studio features, including big-budget family and action movies.
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C.
Chris Applebaum
Chris Applebaum is an American music video director known for creating high-profile videos for major pop and rock artists.
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D.
Jordan Bratman
Jordan Bratman is an American music executive and producer best known for his work in the recording industry and his former marriage to pop singer Christina Aguilera.
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E.
Max Perlich
Max Perlich is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often quirky supporting roles in independent films and television series since the late 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | classic Hollywood era ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| genre | adventure drama ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| notableWork | The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film) 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: Michael Jacoby Description of subject: Michael Jacoby was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1936 adventure drama "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)