Les Goodman
E822268
Les Goodman is a suspicious, scapegoated neighbor in the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," whose odd behavior fuels the community’s descent into paranoia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Goodman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794567 — 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: Les Goodman Context triple: [The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, featuresCharacter, Les Goodman]
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A.
Irwin Goodman
Irwin Goodman was a popular Finnish folk and protest singer-songwriter known for his socially critical and humorous songs in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for his pioneering electric violin work in jazz-rock and progressive rock, including his influential role in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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C.
Jerry Goodwin
Jerry Goodwin is the individual for whom Goodwin Field, a baseball stadium, is named, indicating his significant contribution or connection to the facility or its associated program.
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D.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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E.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
- 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: Les Goodman Target entity description: Les Goodman is a suspicious, scapegoated neighbor in the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," whose odd behavior fuels the community’s descent into paranoia.
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A.
Irwin Goodman
Irwin Goodman was a popular Finnish folk and protest singer-songwriter known for his socially critical and humorous songs in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for his pioneering electric violin work in jazz-rock and progressive rock, including his influential role in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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C.
Jerry Goodwin
Jerry Goodwin is the individual for whom Goodwin Field, a baseball stadium, is named, indicating his significant contribution or connection to the facility or its associated program.
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D.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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E.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| accusedOf |
being an alien
ⓘ
sabotaging the power ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisodeNumber | 22 ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
The Twilight Zone season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes)
|
| appearsInSeries |
The Twilight Zone
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| associatedWith | Maple Street residents ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Charlie Farnsworth
ⓘ
Steve Brand ⓘ |
| createdBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1960-03-04 ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological drama
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | illustrates dangers of suspicion ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
car starts when others do not
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goes for late-night drives ⓘ insomniac ⓘ portrayed as odd by neighbors ⓘ |
| occupation | maple street resident ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| portrayedBy | Barry Atwater ⓘ |
| residence | Maple Street ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
scapegoat
ⓘ
suspected alien ⓘ target of mob paranoia ⓘ |
| setting | suburban American neighborhood ⓘ |
| storyMoralConnection |
critique of Cold War paranoia
ⓘ
warning against prejudice ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
fear of the other
ⓘ
mass hysteria ⓘ mob mentality ⓘ scapegoating ⓘ |
| victimOf |
mob violence
ⓘ
paranoia ⓘ scapegoating ⓘ |
| workOfFictionOriginCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Les Goodman Description of subject: Les Goodman is a suspicious, scapegoated neighbor in the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," whose odd behavior fuels the community’s descent into paranoia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.