Keith Gordon
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Keith Gordon is an American actor and director known for his roles in films like "Christine" and "Back to School" and for directing movies such as "A Midnight Clear" and "Waking the Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keith Gordon canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493727 — 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: Keith Gordon Context triple: [Dressed to Kill, hasCastMember, Keith Gordon]
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A.
Dana Murray
Dana Murray is a film producer best known for her work with Pixar Animation Studios, including producing the acclaimed animated feature "Soul."
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B.
Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards is a retired American professional stock car racing driver best known for his success in NASCAR’s top series, including multiple race wins and a reputation for his trademark backflip celebrations.
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C.
Tim Rasmussen
Tim Rasmussen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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D.
Kyle Newman
Kyle Newman is an American filmmaker best known for directing genre-blending comedies and action films, including the teen spy movie "Barely Lethal."
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E.
Jeffrey Gordon
Jeffrey Gordon is a prominent legal scholar specializing in corporate and securities law, known for his influential work on corporate governance and financial regulation.
- 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: Keith Gordon Target entity description: Keith Gordon is an American actor and director known for his roles in films like "Christine" and "Back to School" and for directing movies such as "A Midnight Clear" and "Waking the Dead."
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A.
Dana Murray
Dana Murray is a film producer best known for her work with Pixar Animation Studios, including producing the acclaimed animated feature "Soul."
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B.
Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards is a retired American professional stock car racing driver best known for his success in NASCAR’s top series, including multiple race wins and a reputation for his trademark backflip celebrations.
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C.
Tim Rasmussen
Tim Rasmussen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "License to Wed."
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D.
Kyle Newman
Kyle Newman is an American filmmaker best known for directing genre-blending comedies and action films, including the teen spy movie "Barely Lethal."
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E.
Jeffrey Gordon
Jeffrey Gordon is a prominent legal scholar specializing in corporate and securities law, known for his influential work on corporate governance and financial regulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart |
1970s
ⓘ
1975 ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-02-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| familyName | Gordon ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
psychological drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Keith ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Keith Gordon ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Midnight Clear
ⓘ
A Midnight Clear (director) ⓘ Back to School ⓘ Christine ⓘ Dexter (TV series, director) ⓘ
linked to:
Dexter
Dressed to Kill ⓘ Fargo (TV series, director) ⓘ Homeland (TV series, director) ⓘ Mother Night (director) ⓘ NYPD Blue (TV series, director) ⓘ
linked to:
NYPD Blue
Static (actor and co-writer) ⓘ The Chocolate War (director) ⓘ
linked to:
The Chocolate War
The Leftovers (TV series, director) ⓘ
linked to:
The Leftovers
The Singing Detective (miniseries adaptation, director) ⓘ
linked to:
The Singing Detective
Waking the Dead ⓘ Waking the Dead (director) ⓘ
linked to:
Waking the Dead
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Arnie Cunningham in Christine
ⓘ
Doug in Dressed to Kill ⓘ Jason Melon in Back to School ⓘ Joe Gideon (young) in All That Jazz ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Brian De Palma
ⓘ
Ethan Hawke ⓘ Gary Sinise ⓘ John Carpenter ⓘ Rodney Dangerfield ⓘ |
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: Keith Gordon Description of subject: Keith Gordon is an American actor and director known for his roles in films like "Christine" and "Back to School" and for directing movies such as "A Midnight Clear" and "Waking the Dead."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.