Gordon Kennedy
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Gordon Kennedy is a songwriter best known for co-writing Eric Clapton’s Grammy-winning hit “Change the World.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon Kennedy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7298396 — 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: Gordon Kennedy Context triple: [Change the World, writer, Gordon Kennedy]
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A.
Gordon Kennedy
Gordon Kennedy is a Scottish actor and comedian best known for his work on the sketch show "Absolutely" and various British television dramas and comedies.
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B.
Gordon Dawson
Gordon Dawson is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his collaborations with director Sam Peckinpah on films such as "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia."
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C.
Gordon Carroll
Gordon Carroll was an American film producer best known for his work on influential movies such as "Alien."
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D.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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E.
Gordon Drummond
Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
- 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: Gordon Kennedy Target entity description: Gordon Kennedy is a songwriter best known for co-writing Eric Clapton’s Grammy-winning hit “Change the World.”
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A.
Gordon Kennedy
Gordon Kennedy is a Scottish actor and comedian best known for his work on the sketch show "Absolutely" and various British television dramas and comedies.
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B.
Gordon Dawson
Gordon Dawson is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his collaborations with director Sam Peckinpah on films such as "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia."
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C.
Gordon Carroll
Gordon Carroll was an American film producer best known for his work on influential movies such as "Alien."
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D.
Gordon McIlwham
Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
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E.
Gordon Drummond
Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century music industry
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Eric Clapton ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Song of the Year ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Change the World ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coWriterWith |
Tommy Sims
ⓘ
Wayne Kirkpatrick ⓘ |
| coWrote | Change the World ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
country
ⓘ
pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasWon | Grammy Award ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor | co-writing Eric Clapton’s hit Change the World ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableWork | Change the World ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Nashville ⓘ |
| wroteSongFor | Eric Clapton ⓘ |
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: Gordon Kennedy Description of subject: Gordon Kennedy is a songwriter best known for co-writing Eric Clapton’s Grammy-winning hit “Change the World.”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.