Eric Gordon
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Eric Gordon is the scheming corporate antagonist in the comedy film "Billy Madison," who tries to take over Billy's father's company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Gordon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3858522 — 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: Eric Gordon Context triple: [Billy Madison, character, Eric Gordon]
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Cole Anthony
Cole Anthony is an American professional basketball player and dynamic scoring point guard in the NBA.
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Lou Williams
Lou Williams is an American professional basketball guard renowned as one of the NBA’s greatest bench scorers, having built a long career as an elite sixth man for multiple teams.
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Dillon Brooks
Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player known for his tenacious defense, physical style of play, and key role on both the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the Canadian national team.
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D.
Trevor Ariza
Trevor Ariza is an American former professional basketball player best known as a versatile 3-and-D wing who won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009.
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E.
J. R. Smith
J. R. Smith is an American former NBA shooting guard known for his streaky three-point shooting, athleticism, and key bench-scoring roles on playoff and championship teams.
- 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: Eric Gordon Target entity description: Eric Gordon is the scheming corporate antagonist in the comedy film "Billy Madison," who tries to take over Billy's father's company.
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A.
Cole Anthony
Cole Anthony is an American professional basketball player and dynamic scoring point guard in the NBA.
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B.
Lou Williams
Lou Williams is an American professional basketball guard renowned as one of the NBA’s greatest bench scorers, having built a long career as an elite sixth man for multiple teams.
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C.
Dillon Brooks
Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player known for his tenacious defense, physical style of play, and key role on both the NBA’s Houston Rockets and the Canadian national team.
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D.
Trevor Ariza
Trevor Ariza is an American former professional basketball player best known as a versatile 3-and-D wing who won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009.
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E.
J. R. Smith
J. R. Smith is an American former NBA shooting guard known for his streaky three-point shooting, athleticism, and key bench-scoring roles on playoff and championship teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| antagonistTo | Billy Madison ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Billy Madison ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Brian Madison ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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manipulative ⓘ scheming ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Billy Madison ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Billy Madison ⓘ |
| creator | Tim Herlihy ⓘ |
| employer | Madison Hotels ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| goal |
gain control of Billy Madison's father's company
ⓘ
take over Madison Hotels ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| name | Eric Gordon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempting a hostile takeover of Madison Hotels
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scheming to undermine Billy Madison ⓘ |
| occupation | business executive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bradley Whitford ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | corporate antagonist ⓘ |
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: Eric Gordon Description of subject: Eric Gordon is the scheming corporate antagonist in the comedy film "Billy Madison," who tries to take over Billy's father's company.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.