Dan Cody
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Dan Cody is a wealthy, self-made copper magnate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" who serves as the formative benefactor and role model for the young Jay Gatsby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Cody canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2659071 — 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 Cody Context triple: [Jay Gatsby, mentor, Dan Cody]
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A.
Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian-American character actor known for his acclaimed supporting roles in films such as "Moonstruck" and "Bang the Drum Slowly," as well as his work on stage and television.
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B.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a relatively kind but morally compromised slaveholder whose financial troubles lead to the sale of Uncle Tom.
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C.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a volatile and fiercely loyal member of the Shelby family and a key leader in the criminal gang at the center of the British TV series "Peaky Blinders."
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D.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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E.
Randolph Galt
Randolph Galt was the husband of American actress Anne Baxter, known primarily for his marriage to the Academy Award–winning star.
- 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 Cody Target entity description: Dan Cody is a wealthy, self-made copper magnate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" who serves as the formative benefactor and role model for the young Jay Gatsby.
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A.
Vincent Gardenia
Vincent Gardenia was an Italian-American character actor known for his acclaimed supporting roles in films such as "Moonstruck" and "Bang the Drum Slowly," as well as his work on stage and television.
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B.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a relatively kind but morally compromised slaveholder whose financial troubles lead to the sale of Uncle Tom.
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C.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a volatile and fiercely loyal member of the Shelby family and a key leader in the criminal gang at the center of the British TV series "Peaky Blinders."
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D.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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E.
Randolph Galt
Randolph Galt was the husband of American actress Anne Baxter, known primarily for his marriage to the Academy Award–winning star.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Great Gatsby ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jay Gatsby ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
adventurous
ⓘ
charismatic ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| creator | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| deathInNarrative | occurs before main events of The Great Gatsby ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1925 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | modernist literature character ⓘ |
| influenced | Jay Gatsby ⓘ |
| inspiredNameChangeOf | Jay Gatsby ⓘ |
| inUniverseTimePeriod | late 19th century to early 20th century ⓘ |
| metCharacter | Jay Gatsby ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
formative influence on Gatsby’s identity
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symbol of wealth and opportunity ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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copper magnate ⓘ |
| relationshipToProtagonist |
mentor
ⓘ
patron ⓘ |
| role |
benefactor of Jay Gatsby
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mentor to Jay Gatsby ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| socialStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| symbolizes | American Dream ⓘ |
| transport | yacht ⓘ |
| wealthOrigin | self-made ⓘ |
| workOfFictionLanguage | English ⓘ |
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 Cody Description of subject: Dan Cody is a wealthy, self-made copper magnate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" who serves as the formative benefactor and role model for the young Jay Gatsby.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.