Joel Goodson
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Joel Goodson is the enterprising suburban teenager portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 1983 film "Risky Business," whose misadventures while his parents are away lead him into a chaotic mix of rebellion, romance, and unexpected entrepreneurship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joel Goodson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301028 — 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: Joel Goodson Context triple: [Risky Business, mainCharacter, Joel Goodson]
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A.
Joel Reynolds
Joel Reynolds is a fictional protagonist whose story centers on his personal experiences and development within the narrative from which he is drawn.
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B.
Joel Parker
Joel Parker is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical American politicians and jurists.
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C.
Joel Allen
Joel Allen is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television adaptation of the horror franchise "The Purge."
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D.
Joel Aldrich Matteson
Joel Aldrich Matteson was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Illinois.
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E.
Joel Ventresca
Joel Ventresca is a San Francisco-based political figure and longtime city employee known for his progressive activism and multiple campaigns for mayor.
- 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: Joel Goodson Target entity description: Joel Goodson is the enterprising suburban teenager portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 1983 film "Risky Business," whose misadventures while his parents are away lead him into a chaotic mix of rebellion, romance, and unexpected entrepreneurship.
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A.
Joel Reynolds
Joel Reynolds is a fictional protagonist whose story centers on his personal experiences and development within the narrative from which he is drawn.
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B.
Joel Parker
Joel Parker is a name shared by several notable individuals, including historical American politicians and jurists.
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C.
Joel Allen
Joel Allen is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television adaptation of the horror franchise "The Purge."
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D.
Joel Aldrich Matteson
Joel Aldrich Matteson was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Illinois.
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E.
Joel Ventresca
Joel Ventresca is a San Francisco-based political figure and longtime city employee known for his progressive activism and multiple campaigns for mayor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Risky Business ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Guido
ⓘ
Lana ⓘ Miles Dalby ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Paul Brickman ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodson ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre |
comedy-drama
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coming-of-age film ⓘ teen comedy ⓘ |
| filmDebutSignificance | breakthrough role for Tom Cruise ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Joel ⓘ |
| goal |
admission to Princeton University
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton University
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| hasTrait |
ambitious
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enterprising ⓘ entrepreneurial ⓘ naive ⓘ rebellious ⓘ risk-taking ⓘ |
| homeType | upper-middle-class suburban house ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| learnsLessonAbout |
consequences of risky behavior
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responsibility ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Lana ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene | dancing in underwear to Bob Seger’s "Old Time Rock and Roll" ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| parentalStatusDuringPlot | parents on vacation ⓘ |
| plotInvolves |
college admissions interview
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damaging his father’s Porsche 928 ⓘ parents away from home ⓘ running a temporary brothel ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Cruise ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago suburbs
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linked to:
Chicago metropolitan area
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| settingPeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
capitalism and morality
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entrepreneurship and risk ⓘ sexual awakening ⓘ teen rebellion ⓘ |
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: Joel Goodson Description of subject: Joel Goodson is the enterprising suburban teenager portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 1983 film "Risky Business," whose misadventures while his parents are away lead him into a chaotic mix of rebellion, romance, and unexpected entrepreneurship.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.