Dan Goodman
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Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Goodman canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060808 — 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: Dan Goodman Context triple: [Next to Normal, featuresCharacter, Dan Goodman]
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A.
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
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B.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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C.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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D.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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E.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
- 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: Dan Goodman Target entity description: Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
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A.
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
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B.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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C.
David S. Kaufman
David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
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D.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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E.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Next to Normal ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
denial
ⓘ
family dynamics ⓘ grief ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | main cast character ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devoted husband
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emotionally repressed ⓘ loving father ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ supportive ⓘ |
| child |
Gabe Goodman
ⓘ
Natalie Goodman ⓘ |
| createdBy | Brian Yorkey ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodman ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Next to Normal
ⓘ
surface form:
Next to Normal (original Off-Broadway production)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Dan ⓘ |
| hasRelationship |
father of Gabe Goodman
ⓘ
father of Natalie Goodman ⓘ husband of Diana Goodman ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | stage musical ⓘ |
| musicBy | Tom Kitt ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | tries to hold his family together ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
J. Robert Spencer
ⓘ
Jason Danieley ⓘ Jeremy Kushnier ⓘ Louis Hobson ⓘ Other stage actors in various productions ⓘ |
| relationshipToDianaGoodman | primary caregiver and emotional support ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in Next to Normal ⓘ |
| setting | suburban American family home ⓘ |
| songPerformedIn |
A Light in the Dark
ⓘ
Aftershocks ⓘ How Could I Ever Forget? ⓘ I Am the One ⓘ It’s Gonna Be Good ⓘ Who’s Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and I ⓘ |
| spouse | Diana Goodman ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
acknowledging his own grief
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coping with his wife’s bipolar disorder ⓘ maintaining family stability ⓘ |
| workType | rock musical ⓘ |
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: Dan Goodman Description of subject: Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.