Reverend Jim Ignatowski
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Reverend Jim Ignatowski is a spaced-out, eccentric former hippie and cab driver best known as the lovably bizarre character from the TV sitcom "Taxi."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reverend Jim Ignatowski canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7940201 — 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: Reverend Jim Ignatowski Context triple: [Christopher Lloyd, characterRole, Reverend Jim Ignatowski]
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Paul
Father Paul is a Catholic priest in Leslie Marmon Silko’s short story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," whose interactions with a Native American family highlight tensions and compromises between Christian and Indigenous spiritual traditions.
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C.
Reverend Frank
Reverend Frank is the quirky, meddlesome minister who oversees and tests a young couple’s relationship in the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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D.
Reverend Frank Scott
Reverend Frank Scott is a courageous, unconventional clergyman who leads and sacrifices himself to save survivors in the disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure."
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E.
Father Andrew
Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
- 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: Reverend Jim Ignatowski Target entity description: Reverend Jim Ignatowski is a spaced-out, eccentric former hippie and cab driver best known as the lovably bizarre character from the TV sitcom "Taxi."
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A.
Father Michael Logan
Father Michael Logan is the tormented Catholic priest protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock’s film "I Confess," bound by the secrecy of the confessional even as he is suspected of murder.
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B.
Father Paul
Father Paul is a Catholic priest in Leslie Marmon Silko’s short story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," whose interactions with a Native American family highlight tensions and compromises between Christian and Indigenous spiritual traditions.
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C.
Reverend Frank
Reverend Frank is the quirky, meddlesome minister who oversees and tests a young couple’s relationship in the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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D.
Reverend Frank Scott
Reverend Frank Scott is a courageous, unconventional clergyman who leads and sacrifices himself to save survivors in the disaster film "The Poseidon Adventure."
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E.
Father Andrew
Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Taxi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | television ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sunshine Cab Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardConnection | Christopher Lloyd won Emmy Awards for portraying him NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType |
eccentric
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former hippie ⓘ spaced-out ⓘ |
| createdBy |
David Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ed. Weinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ James L. Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Stan Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ Taxi writing staff ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | cult favorite TV character ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Taxi season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | "Paper Marriage" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Taxi (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Ignatowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreAsCharacter | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bizarre behavior
ⓘ
comic misunderstandings ⓘ drug-induced spaced-out demeanor ⓘ non sequitur dialogue ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cab driver
ⓘ
minister ⓘ |
| partOfCastWith |
Alex Reiger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bobby Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ Elaine Nardo NERFINISHED ⓘ Latka Gravas NERFINISHED ⓘ Louie De Palma NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Banta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
absent-minded
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gentle ⓘ kind-hearted ⓘ naive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christopher Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | sitcom ⓘ |
| seriesNetwork |
ABC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalActivity |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| title | Reverend ⓘ |
| worksAt | Sunshine Cab Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Reverend Jim Ignatowski Description of subject: Reverend Jim Ignatowski is a spaced-out, eccentric former hippie and cab driver best known as the lovably bizarre character from the TV sitcom "Taxi."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Louie De Palma