Jim Gordon
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Jim Gordon was an American session drummer and songwriter renowned for his work with numerous rock artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including contributions to landmark recordings like Derek and the Dominos' "Layla."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Gordon canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4453965 — 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: Jim Gordon Context triple: [Plastic Ono Band, hasMember, Jim Gordon]
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A.
James Gordon
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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B.
James Lassiter
James Lassiter is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Will Smith through their production company Overbrook Entertainment.
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C.
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday is the no-nonsense, methodical detective protagonist of the classic police procedural series "Dragnet," known for his deadpan delivery and focus on factual investigation.
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D.
Don Flack
Don Flack is a tough, street-smart NYPD homicide detective featured as a central character in the television series CSI: NY.
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E.
Harvey Dent
Harvey Dent is a prominent Gotham City district attorney who becomes the tragic, disfigured villain Two-Face in the Batman universe.
- 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: Jim Gordon Target entity description: Jim Gordon was an American session drummer and songwriter renowned for his work with numerous rock artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including contributions to landmark recordings like Derek and the Dominos' "Layla."
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A.
James Gordon
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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B.
James Lassiter
James Lassiter is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Will Smith through their production company Overbrook Entertainment.
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C.
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday is the no-nonsense, methodical detective protagonist of the classic police procedural series "Dragnet," known for his deadpan delivery and focus on factual investigation.
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D.
Don Flack
Don Flack is a tough, street-smart NYPD homicide detective featured as a central character in the television series CSI: NY.
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E.
Harvey Dent
Harvey Dent is a prominent Gotham City district attorney who becomes the tragic, disfigured villain Two-Face in the Batman universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Derek and the Dominos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ George Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Cocker NERFINISHED ⓘ Steely Dan NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James Beck Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
George Harrison album "All Things Must Pass"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Cocker "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" tour and recordings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
1960s rock
ⓘ
1970s rock ⓘ |
| genre |
blues rock
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pop rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the most in-demand Los Angeles session drummers of the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Derek and the Dominos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jim Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to Derek and the Dominos album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"
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drumming on the song "Layla" ⓘ |
| occupation |
session drummer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | precise and powerful rock drumming ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Dave Mason
NERFINISHED
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Delaney & Bonnie NERFINISHED ⓘ Derek and the Dominos NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ George Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Cocker NERFINISHED ⓘ Steely Dan NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beach Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ Traffic 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: Jim Gordon Description of subject: Jim Gordon was an American session drummer and songwriter renowned for his work with numerous rock artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including contributions to landmark recordings like Derek and the Dominos' "Layla."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.