Fielding Goodney
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Fielding Goodney is a fictional character from Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note," embodying the excess and moral ambiguity of the 1980s entertainment industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fielding Goodney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11707011 — 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: Fielding Goodney Context triple: [Money: A Suicide Note, hasCharacter, Fielding Goodney]
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A.
Fielding Dawson
Fielding Dawson was an American writer and painter associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his experimental prose and close ties to the Black Mountain College community.
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B.
Fielding Harris
Fielding Harris is the given first and middle name of Fielding H. Yost, the famed early 20th-century American college football coach.
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C.
Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis was an 18th-century Virginia merchant and patriot, best known as the brother-in-law of George Washington and a prominent supporter of the American Revolutionary cause.
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D.
Asahel Nettleton
Asahel Nettleton was a prominent early 19th-century American revivalist and theologian whose preaching and writings significantly shaped the development of New England Calvinist thought and evangelical practice.
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E.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
- 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: Fielding Goodney Target entity description: Fielding Goodney is a fictional character from Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note," embodying the excess and moral ambiguity of the 1980s entertainment industry.
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A.
Fielding Dawson
Fielding Dawson was an American writer and painter associated with the Black Mountain poets, known for his experimental prose and close ties to the Black Mountain College community.
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B.
Fielding Harris
Fielding Harris is the given first and middle name of Fielding H. Yost, the famed early 20th-century American college football coach.
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C.
Fielding Lewis
Fielding Lewis was an 18th-century Virginia merchant and patriot, best known as the brother-in-law of George Washington and a prominent supporter of the American Revolutionary cause.
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D.
Asahel Nettleton
Asahel Nettleton was a prominent early 19th-century American revivalist and theologian whose preaching and writings significantly shaped the development of New England Calvinist thought and evangelical practice.
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E.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Money: A Suicide Note ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
capitalism
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consumerism ⓘ media culture ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| associatedWithIndustry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Martin Amis ⓘ |
| depictedEra | 1980s ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Money: A Suicide Note ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Money fictional universe ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfWork | postmodernism ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | major supporting character ⓘ |
| partOfWork | British postmodern literature ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1984 ⓘ |
| represents |
excess of the 1980s entertainment industry
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moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| workCharacterType | satirical figure ⓘ |
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: Fielding Goodney Description of subject: Fielding Goodney is a fictional character from Martin Amis’s darkly comic novel "Money: A Suicide Note," embodying the excess and moral ambiguity of the 1980s entertainment industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.