James W. Gordon
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James W. Gordon is a fictional Gotham City police official from DC Comics, best known as Batman’s trusted ally and often depicted as the city’s police commissioner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James W. Gordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6420888 — 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: James W. Gordon Context triple: [James Gordon, fullName, James W. Gordon]
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A.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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B.
William C. Gordon
William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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C.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- 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: James W. Gordon Target entity description: James W. Gordon is a fictional Gotham City police official from DC Comics, best known as Batman’s trusted ally and often depicted as the city’s police commissioner.
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A.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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B.
William C. Gordon
William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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C.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and computational plasma physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DC Comics character
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Gotham City Police Department officer ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Batman animated series
NERFINISHED
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Batman films NERFINISHED ⓘ Batman television series NERFINISHED ⓘ Batman video games ⓘ |
| alias | Jim Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Batman comics
NERFINISHED
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Batman: The Long Halloween NERFINISHED ⓘ Batman: Year One NERFINISHED ⓘ Detective Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ Gotham Central NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dark Knight Returns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bat-Signal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterAlignment | good ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Bill Finger
NERFINISHED
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Bob Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Gotham City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Barbara Gordon
NERFINISHED
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James Gordon Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Essen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalCity | Gotham City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | DC Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Detective Comics #27 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | May 1939 ⓘ |
| fullName | James Worthington Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| medium | comic books ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAlly |
Batman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
dedicated to justice
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honest cop in a corrupt city ⓘ |
| notableEnemy |
Carmine Falcone
NERFINISHED
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The Joker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Penguin NERFINISHED ⓘ Two-Face NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
police commissioner
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police officer ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Gotham City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department
NERFINISHED
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Detective of the Gotham City Police Department ⓘ Lieutenant of the Gotham City Police Department ⓘ |
| publisher | DC Comics ⓘ |
| role |
Batman’s ally
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law enforcement official ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| uses | Bat-Signal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James W. Gordon Description of subject: James W. Gordon is a fictional Gotham City police official from DC Comics, best known as Batman’s trusted ally and often depicted as the city’s police commissioner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.