Rob Gordon
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Rob Gordon is the obsessive, music-obsessed record store owner and narrator of the romantic comedy film "High Fidelity," known for cataloging his life and relationships through top-five lists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rob Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906820 — 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: Rob Gordon Context triple: [High Fidelity (film), character, Rob Gordon]
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A.
Jon Moss
Jon Moss is an English drummer best known as a member of the pop band Culture Club alongside Boy George.
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B.
Roy McBride
Roy McBride is the introspective astronaut protagonist of the science fiction film "Ad Astra," whose deep-space mission forces him to confront both cosmic mysteries and his fraught relationship with his father.
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C.
Barrett Doss
Barrett Doss is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as firefighter Victoria Hughes on the television drama series "Station 19."
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D.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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E.
Charles Tucker
Charles Tucker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus.
- 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: Rob Gordon Target entity description: Rob Gordon is the obsessive, music-obsessed record store owner and narrator of the romantic comedy film "High Fidelity," known for cataloging his life and relationships through top-five lists.
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A.
Jon Moss
Jon Moss is an English drummer best known as a member of the pop band Culture Club alongside Boy George.
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B.
Roy McBride
Roy McBride is the introspective astronaut protagonist of the science fiction film "Ad Astra," whose deep-space mission forces him to confront both cosmic mysteries and his fraught relationship with his father.
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C.
Barrett Doss
Barrett Doss is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as firefighter Victoria Hughes on the television drama series "Station 19."
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D.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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E.
Charles Tucker
Charles Tucker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedForScreenBy |
D. V. DeVincentis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Pink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | High Fidelity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Rob Fleming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | High Fidelity (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriend |
Barry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Nick Hornby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Championship Vinyl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exGirlfriend |
Allison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catherine NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlie NERFINISHED ⓘ Penny NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | American ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | High Fidelity (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFilmAppearance | High Fidelity (2000 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy character ⓘ |
| hobby |
collecting vinyl records
ⓘ
making mixtapes ⓘ ranking songs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
breaking the fourth wall
ⓘ
making top-five lists ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
first-person narrator
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| narratorOf | High Fidelity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableScene |
listing top five breakups
ⓘ
reorganizing record collection autobiographically ⓘ |
| occupation |
DJ
ⓘ
record store owner ⓘ |
| owns | Championship Vinyl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
music-obsessed
ⓘ
obsessive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Laura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
emotional immaturity
ⓘ
pop culture obsession ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
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: Rob Gordon Description of subject: Rob Gordon is the obsessive, music-obsessed record store owner and narrator of the romantic comedy film "High Fidelity," known for cataloging his life and relationships through top-five lists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
High Fidelity (film)