Gordy Howard
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Gordy Howard is a fictional television news writer and sportscaster character portrayed by John Amos on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordy Howard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7164214 — 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: Gordy Howard Context triple: [John Amos, playedCharacter, Gordy Howard]
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A.
Harvey Mason Jr.
Harvey Mason Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, and music executive known for his work with major pop and R&B artists and for serving as CEO of the Recording Academy.
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B.
Harvey Mason Sr.
Harvey Mason Sr. is an American jazz drummer, composer, and record producer renowned for his session work and as a founding member of the jazz-fusion group Fourplay.
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C.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
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D.
Miles Goodman
Miles Goodman was an American composer and jazz record producer best known for his film scores, particularly for popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Elder Watson Diggs
Elder Watson Diggs was an African American educator and co-founder of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, who became a notable figure in early 20th-century Black intellectual and cultural life.
- 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: Gordy Howard Target entity description: Gordy Howard is a fictional television news writer and sportscaster character portrayed by John Amos on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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A.
Harvey Mason Jr.
Harvey Mason Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, and music executive known for his work with major pop and R&B artists and for serving as CEO of the Recording Academy.
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B.
Harvey Mason Sr.
Harvey Mason Sr. is an American jazz drummer, composer, and record producer renowned for his session work and as a founding member of the jazz-fusion group Fourplay.
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C.
Rudy Bloom
Rudy Bloom is the deceased infant son of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," whose memory deeply affects his parents throughout the book.
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D.
Miles Goodman
Miles Goodman was an American composer and jazz record producer best known for his film scores, particularly for popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Elder Watson Diggs
Elder Watson Diggs was an African American educator and co-founder of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, who became a notable figure in early 20th-century Black intellectual and cultural life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV series)
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linked to:
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coWorkerOf |
Lou Grant
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Mary Richards ⓘ Murray Slaughter ⓘ Rhoda Morgenstern ⓘ Ted Baxter ⓘ |
| fictionalProfession |
sportscaster at WJM-TV
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weatherman at WJM-TV ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | sitcom ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the early recurring Black characters on a mainstream American sitcom ⓘ |
| occupation |
sportscaster
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television news writer ⓘ weatherman ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show universe
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linked to:
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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| portrayedBy | John Amos ⓘ |
| portrayedByCharacterEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| worksAt | WJM-TV ⓘ |
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: Gordy Howard Description of subject: Gordy Howard is a fictional television news writer and sportscaster character portrayed by John Amos on the classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.