edgepedia

All articles starting with G

18,970 articles

Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park

Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park (云顶天城世界), formerly 20th Century Fox World, is an outdoor theme park at Resorts World Genting, Genting Highlands, Malaysia, soft-opened 8 February 2022 with nine themed worlds, 26 rides, and 20th Century Studios licenses.

Gentle Ben

Gentle Ben is Walt Morey's 1965 children's novel, also known under the film title Gentle Giant, about Mark Andersen, an Alaskan boy who befriends a chained brown bear; it won the Dutton and Sequoyah awards and inspired a CBS series.

Gentle Bones

Gentle Bones, the stage name of Singaporean singer-songwriter Joel Tan, broke out in 2013 with "Until We Die" and in 2015 became the first Singaporean act signed to Universal Music.

Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant: British progressive rock band (1970-1980) formed by Derek, Phil, and Ray Shulman after Simon Dupree and the Big Sound; known for counterpoint, multipart vocals, and 11 studio albums including Octopus and Free Hand.

Gentle Monster (film)

Gentle Monster is a 2026 drama by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, starring Léa Seydoux, Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve. It premiered in Competition at Cannes 2026; a pianist's husband is arrested over child abuse material, and it streamed on Netflix from November 18, 2026.

Gentleman

Gentleman: originally an Englishman of gentle birth below the titled aristocracy, later a moral standard of courteous male conduct defined by manners rather than birth, now a contested gendered address term.

Gentleman (2016 film)

Gentleman (జెంటిల్మేన్) is a 2016 Telugu romantic thriller directed by Mohan Krishna Indraganti, starring Nani in a double role as Gautham and Jai with Surbhi and Nivetha Thomas; released 17 June 2016 by Sridevi Movies.

Gentleman (character)

The Gentleman, Gustav Fiers: Marvel Comics criminal and Spider-Man figure, played by Michael Massee as the shadowy Oscorp operative in The Amazing Spider-Man films.

Gentleman (music)

Gentleman is the soundtrack album of the 2016 Telugu film of the same name, starring Nani, composed by Mani Sharma, and released on 22 May 2016.

Gentleman (ஜென்டில்மேன்) (1993 film)

Gentleman (ஜென்டில்மேன்) is a 1993 Tamil action film, S. Shankar's directorial debut, produced by K.T. Kunjumon with A.R. Rahman's music, starring Arjun Sarja as a Robin Hood-style thief funding education for the poor; not to be confused with its Telugu dub or Hindi remake.

Gentleman Jack (TV series)

Gentleman Jack is a British TV drama created by Sally Wainwright, starring Suranne Jones as 19th-century Yorkshire landowner and diarist Anne Lister, first aired in 2019.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim (1942) is a Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. biopic starring Errol Flynn as boxer James J. Corbett, adapted from The Roar of the Crowd, depicting his 1892 Queensberry-rules title win over John L. Sullivan.

Gentleman thief

Gentleman thief (also gentleman burglar, lady thief; related to the Japanese kaitō 怪盗): a crime-fiction stock character who steals with charm, manners, and no violence, exemplified by Raffles (1898) and Arsène Lupin (1905).

Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement: 1947 Twentieth Century-Fox drama directed by Elia Kazan, adapted from Laura Z. Hobson's novel, in which Gregory Peck's journalist poses as Jewish to expose antisemitism; won the 1948 Best Picture Oscar. Distinct from the 1935 library-copying Gentlemen's Agreement.

Gentlemen Broncos

Gentlemen Broncos is a 2009 American comedy directed by Jared Hess and co-written with Jerusha Hess, in which homeschooled teen writer Benjamin Purvis's story Yeast Lords is stolen by novelist Ronald Chevalier; it grossed $118,492 worldwide against a $10 million budget.

Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи)

Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи) is a 1971 Mosfilm Soviet comedy by Alexander Sery, written by Daneliya and Tokareva, starring Evgeny Leonov as a kindergarten director impersonating the thief Dozent; 65 million Soviet viewers.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) is Howard Hawks's Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor musical comedy starring Jane Russell as Dorothy Shaw and Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee, adapted from the 1949 Broadway musical and Anita Loos's 1925 novella, famous for "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."

Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players, English first-class cricket series 1806–1962 between amateur Gentlemen and professional Players, mostly at Lord's; 274 matches, Players won 125, ended when MCC abolished amateur status in 1963.

Gentlemen's agreement

Gentlemen's agreement: an informal, non-binding arrangement honored through trust, honor, and social pressure rather than legal enforceability; best-known example is the 1907-08 US-Japan immigration understanding.

Gentlemen's club

Gentlemen's club: a members-only private social club created by and for upper-class British men, originating in 17th-18th century London (White's, 1693), peaking with 400+ Victorian clubs, electing members by blackballing.

Gentlewoman (film)

Gentlewoman (ஜென்டில்வுமன்) is a 2025 Tamil mystery thriller, the directorial debut of Joshua Sethuraman, starring Lijomol Jose, Hari Krishnan, and Losliya; released 7 March 2025, U/A, 1h 53m.

Gentner Drummond

Gentner Drummond is an American attorney and Republican politician who has served as Oklahoma's Attorney General since 2023, after a career as an Air Force pilot and rancher.

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux, originally code-named Enoch Linux, is a source-based Linux distribution started by Daniel Robbins in 1999, first released in 2002 with the Portage package manager.

Gentoo penguin

Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua), third largest living penguin, breeding on sub-Antarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula; about 387,000 pairs, red-orange bill, inshore deep-diving forager, IUCN least concern with stable population.

Gentrification

Gentrification, coined by Ruth Glass in 1964 for middle-class takeover of working-class London areas like Notting Hill and Islington, is neighborhood upgrading with displacement of low-income residents, studied through health, green, and climate variants.

GENTRL

GENTRL, or generative tensorial reinforcement learning, is a deep generative model for de novo small-molecule design from Insilico Medicine, described in a 2019 Nature Biotechnology paper.

Gentry

Gentry: landowning social class below the titled nobility, especially in England (knights, esquires, gentlemen living on rental income). Also the Chinese gentry. Key facts: post-Black Death political rise, local office, primogeniture, persistence to the 1870s.

Gentzen's consistency proof

Gentzen's consistency proof, also known as Gentzen's theorem, is Gerhard Gentzen's 1936 proof that Peano arithmetic is consistent, using transfinite induction up to the ordinal ε0.

Genu recurvatum

Genu recurvatum, abnormal knee hyperextension beyond 5 degrees, congenital or acquired from physeal arrest, trauma, or ligament laxity; treated by bracing, tibial osteotomy, or posterior soft tissue tensioning.

Genu valgum

Genu valgum (knock knees): inward angulation at the knee. Physiologic between ages 3-6, pathologic if persistent after 7; causes include rickets, dysplasias, trauma; treated by observation or guided growth.