Jordan Baker
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Jordan Baker is a cynical, self-centered professional golfer and socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, known for her modern attitudes, moral ambiguity, and romantic involvement with Nick Carraway.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jordan Baker canonical | 11 |
| Jordan Baker (close friend, sometimes treated as quasi-sisterly companion) | 1 |
| Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby | 1 |
| Jordan Baker – Ruth Hussey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549583 — 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: Jordan Baker Context triple: [The Great Gatsby, mainCharacter, Jordan Baker]
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A.
Daisy Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan is a wealthy, beautiful, and emotionally elusive socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "The Great Gatsby," symbolizing both the allure and moral emptiness of the American upper class in the 1920s.
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B.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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C.
Becky Thatcher
Becky Thatcher is a spirited, kind-hearted girl in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom’s love interest and a symbol of youthful innocence and adventure.
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D.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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E.
Margo Channing
Margo Channing is a celebrated but aging Broadway star whose career and personal insecurities are central to the drama of the classic film "All About Eve."
- 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: Jordan Baker Target entity description: Jordan Baker is a cynical, self-centered professional golfer and socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, known for her modern attitudes, moral ambiguity, and romantic involvement with Nick Carraway.
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A.
Daisy Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan is a wealthy, beautiful, and emotionally elusive socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "The Great Gatsby," symbolizing both the allure and moral emptiness of the American upper class in the 1920s.
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B.
Daisy Parker
Daisy Parker was the first wife of legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, whom he married in the early 1920s.
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C.
Becky Thatcher
Becky Thatcher is a spirited, kind-hearted girl in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom’s love interest and a symbol of youthful innocence and adventure.
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D.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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E.
Margo Channing
Margo Channing is a celebrated but aging Broadway star whose career and personal insecurities are central to the drama of the classic film "All About Eve."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Great Gatsby ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Roaring Twenties
ⓘ
surface form:
Jazz Age
modern woman ⓘ moral decay ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| basedOn | Edith Cummings ⓘ |
| closeTo | Daisy Buchanan ⓘ |
| createdBy | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Great Gatsby ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMoralCharacteristic | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
aloof
ⓘ
cool ⓘ cynical ⓘ detached ⓘ dishonest ⓘ self-centered ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipDynamic | ambivalent with Nick Carraway ⓘ |
| involvedIn | golf cheating scandal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
careless driving
ⓘ
independence ⓘ modern attitudes ⓘ |
| language | English (original text) ⓘ |
| literaryEra | Jazz Age literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
foil to Nick Carraway
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love interest of Nick Carraway ⓘ representative of flapper era ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
professional golfer
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socialite ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
athletic
ⓘ
emotionally detached ⓘ physically slender ⓘ socially sophisticated ⓘ |
| romanticRelationshipWith | Nick Carraway ⓘ |
| setting |
Long Island
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York
|
| socialCircle |
East Egg
ⓘ
surface form:
East Egg society
West Egg ⓘ
surface form:
West Egg society
|
| symbolizes |
modernity
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moral carelessness ⓘ new woman of the 1920s ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
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: Jordan Baker Description of subject: Jordan Baker is a cynical, self-centered professional golfer and socialite in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel *The Great Gatsby*, known for her modern attitudes, moral ambiguity, and romantic involvement with Nick Carraway.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jordan Baker (close friend, sometimes treated as quasi-sisterly companion)
this entity surface form:
Jordan Baker – Ruth Hussey
this entity surface form:
Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby