James Gordon
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James Gordon is Gotham City's principled police commissioner and a key ally of Batman in the fight against crime and corruption.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1108493 — 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)
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Target entity: James Gordon Context triple: [The Dark Knight, character, James Gordon]
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Harvey Dent
Harvey Dent is a prominent Gotham City district attorney who becomes the tragic, disfigured villain Two-Face in the Batman universe.
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Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
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Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne’s loyal butler, caretaker, and confidant in the Batman franchise, often serving as a moral compass and providing support for Batman’s crime-fighting activities.
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Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- 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: James Gordon Target entity description: James Gordon is Gotham City's principled police commissioner and a key ally of Batman in the fight against crime and corruption.
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A.
Harvey Dent
Harvey Dent is a prominent Gotham City district attorney who becomes the tragic, disfigured villain Two-Face in the Batman universe.
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B.
Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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C.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
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D.
Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce Wayne’s loyal butler, caretaker, and confidant in the Batman franchise, often serving as a moral compass and providing support for Batman’s crime-fighting activities.
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E.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: James Gordon Description of subject: James Gordon is Gotham City's principled police commissioner and a key ally of Batman in the fight against crime and corruption.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Jim Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s Batman television series
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Ray Wise as Commissioner James Gordon
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Jim Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon in Batman (1989)
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Commissioner James Gordon in Batman Returns (1992)
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Commissioner James Gordon in Batman Forever (1995)
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Sal Maroni (The Dark Knight)
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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Commissioner James Gordon
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The Joker (The Dark Knight)