Martin Goodman
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Martin Goodman is the eccentric, food-obsessed and often childish father in the British sitcom "Friday Night Dinner," known for his bizarre habits and catchphrases.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Goodman canonical | 3 |
| Martin Goodman in Friday Night Dinner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10466319 — 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: Martin Goodman Context triple: [Friday Night Dinner, mainCharacter, Martin Goodman]
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A.
Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman was a prominent Toronto civic leader and former president of the Toronto Star, remembered for his contributions to the city’s public life and urban development.
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B.
Robert Levine
Robert Levine is an American cardiologist best known as the husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
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C.
Stephen Frank
Stephen Frank was an early American pioneer after whom the city of Frankfort, Kentucky, is named.
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D.
Josh Levi
Josh Levi is an American singer and actor known for his music career and for voicing a character in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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E.
Joe Roth
Joe Roth is an American film producer and studio executive who became a prominent sports figure as the lead investor and former majority owner of Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC.
- 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: Martin Goodman Target entity description: Martin Goodman is the eccentric, food-obsessed and often childish father in the British sitcom "Friday Night Dinner," known for his bizarre habits and catchphrases.
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A.
Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman was a prominent Toronto civic leader and former president of the Toronto Star, remembered for his contributions to the city’s public life and urban development.
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B.
Robert Levine
Robert Levine is an American cardiologist best known as the husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
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C.
Stephen Frank
Stephen Frank was an early American pioneer after whom the city of Frankfort, Kentucky, is named.
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D.
Josh Levi
Josh Levi is an American singer and actor known for his music career and for voicing a character in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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E.
Joe Roth
Joe Roth is an American film producer and studio executive who became a prominent sports figure as the lead investor and former majority owner of Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Friday Night Dinner ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode |
Friday Night Dinner Series 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner Series 2 ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner Series 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner Series 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner Series 5 ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner Series 6 ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Popper ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Friday Night Dinner universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Friday Night Dinner, Series 1 Episode 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Friday Night Dinner
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom character ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase |
Lovely bit of squirrel
ⓘ
Nice bit of crumble ⓘ Shit on it! ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Adam Goodman
ⓘ
Jonny Goodman ⓘ |
| hasHabit |
frequently takes his shirt off at home
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hides food around the house ⓘ makes inappropriate jokes at the dinner table ⓘ mispronounces words for comic effect ⓘ often eats food straight from the fridge ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
absurd
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childish ⓘ eccentric ⓘ food-obsessed ⓘ good-natured ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jackie Goodman ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Jackie Goodman ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
bizarre eating habits
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childish behaviour ⓘ embarrassing his sons ⓘ shouting his catchphrases ⓘ |
| isMarriedTo | Jackie Goodman ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic relief
ⓘ
patriarch of the Goodman family ⓘ |
| occupation | father ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Ritter ⓘ |
| residence | suburban London home ⓘ |
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: Martin Goodman Description of subject: Martin Goodman is the eccentric, food-obsessed and often childish father in the British sitcom "Friday Night Dinner," known for his bizarre habits and catchphrases.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Martin Goodman
subject linked to:
Adam Goodman is the elder son of the Goodman family
subject linked to:
Jonny Goodman is the younger son of the Goodman family