Rod Tidwell
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Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rod Tidwell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5822753 — 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: Rod Tidwell Context triple: [Jerry Maguire, mainCharacter, Rod Tidwell]
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A.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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B.
Doug Dillard
Doug Dillard was an influential American bluegrass banjo player and musician best known for his work with The Dillards and his role in popularizing bluegrass in the 1960s.
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C.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
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D.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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E.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
- 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: Rod Tidwell Target entity description: Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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A.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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B.
Doug Dillard
Doug Dillard was an influential American bluegrass banjo player and musician best known for his work with The Dillards and his role in popularizing bluegrass in the 1960s.
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C.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
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D.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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E.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| agent | Jerry Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jerry Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardWithinStory | lucrative contract extension ⓘ |
| catchphraseAssociation | show me the money ⓘ |
| celebrationStyle | elaborate end-zone dances ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
friendship with sports agent
ⓘ
loyalty in professional sports ⓘ sports business ethics ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
family-oriented ⓘ loyal ⓘ outspoken ⓘ |
| contractIssue | underpaid compared to other players ⓘ |
| createdBy | Cameron Crowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | popularized the phrase "show me the money" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRole |
devoted father
ⓘ
devoted husband ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional NFL player ⓘ |
| filmStudioOfWork | TriStar Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Jerry Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| goal | secure a better contract ⓘ |
| hasChild | Rod Tidwell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Tidwell brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| injuryPlotPoint | knocked unconscious during a game ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| league | National Football League ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | tests Jerry Maguire’s integrity and loyalty ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Show me the money! ⓘ |
| occupation | professional football player ⓘ |
| personalityDescription | demanding but warm-hearted ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Cuba Gooding Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | wide receiver ⓘ |
| relationshipWithProtagonist |
client of Jerry Maguire
ⓘ
friend of Jerry Maguire ⓘ |
| screenTimeSignificance | major supporting character ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Marcee Tidwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team | Arizona Cardinals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turningPointScene | touchdown catch leading to contract breakthrough ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmRelease | 1996 ⓘ |
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: Rod Tidwell Description of subject: Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jerry Maguire