Gooden
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Gooden is a surname most notably associated with former Major League Baseball pitcher Dwight "Doc" Gooden, a dominant star of the 1980s New York Mets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gooden canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1300559 — 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: Gooden Context triple: [Dwight Gooden, familyName, Gooden]
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A.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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B.
Goldsman
Goldsman is the surname of Akiva Goldsman, an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
Graham
Graham is a masculine given name of English origin, historically derived from a surname and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Graham
Graham is the surname of Elizabeth Arden, the pioneering Canadian-American businesswoman who founded the iconic Elizabeth Arden cosmetics empire.
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E.
Adoian
Adoian is the original Armenian surname of the influential abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky.
- 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: Gooden Target entity description: Gooden is a surname most notably associated with former Major League Baseball pitcher Dwight "Doc" Gooden, a dominant star of the 1980s New York Mets.
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A.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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B.
Goldsman
Goldsman is the surname of Akiva Goldsman, an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
Graham
Graham is a masculine given name of English origin, historically derived from a surname and commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Graham
Graham is the surname of Elizabeth Arden, the pioneering Canadian-American businesswoman who founded the iconic Elizabeth Arden cosmetics empire.
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E.
Adoian
Adoian is the original Armenian surname of the influential abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball player
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ pitcher ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| AllStarSelection |
1984
ⓘ
1985 ⓘ 1986 ⓘ 1988 ⓘ |
| bats | Right ⓘ |
| brokeRecord | single-season strikeout record for a rookie in 1984 ⓘ |
| careerERA | 3.51 ⓘ |
| careerStrikeouts | 2293 ⓘ |
| careerWins | 194 ⓘ |
| CyYoungAward | 1985 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-11-16 ⓘ |
| ERAChampion | 1985 ⓘ |
| givenName |
Dwight Gooden
ⓘ
surface form:
Dwight Eugene Gooden
|
| hallOfFame |
Mets Hall of Fame and Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
New York Mets Hall of Fame
|
| jerseyNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| MLBDebut | 1984-04-07 ⓘ |
| MLBDebutTeam | New York Mets ⓘ |
| nickname |
Dwight Gooden
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surface form:
Doc Gooden
Dr. K ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Dwight Gooden ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dominant pitching in mid-1980s
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key role on 1986 New York Mets World Series team ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tampa, Florida
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surface form:
Tampa, Florida, United States
|
| position | Starting pitcher ⓘ |
| retiredFromMLB | 2001 ⓘ |
| RookieOfTheYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| strikeoutsLeader |
1984
ⓘ
1985 ⓘ |
| team |
Cleveland Indians
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Houston Astros ⓘ New York Mets ⓘ New York Yankees ⓘ Tampa Bay Rays ⓘ
surface form:
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
|
| throws | Right ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| winsLeader | 1985 ⓘ |
| WorldSeriesChampion |
1986
ⓘ
1996 ⓘ 2000 ⓘ |
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: Gooden Description of subject: Gooden is a surname most notably associated with former Major League Baseball pitcher Dwight "Doc" Gooden, a dominant star of the 1980s New York Mets.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dwight Gooden