Colin Sullivan
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Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colin Sullivan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790638 — 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: Colin Sullivan Context triple: [The Departed, mainCharacter, Colin Sullivan]
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A.
David Sullivan
David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
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B.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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C.
Sean Kilpatrick
Sean Kilpatrick is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability as a guard in the NBA and overseas leagues.
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D.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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E.
James McDermott
James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
- 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: Colin Sullivan Target entity description: Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
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A.
David Sullivan
David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
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B.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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C.
Sean Kilpatrick
Sean Kilpatrick is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability as a guard in the NBA and overseas leagues.
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D.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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E.
James McDermott
James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Massachusetts State Police ⓘ |
| alignment | corrupt cop ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Billy Costigan
ⓘ
Dignam ⓘ Frank Costello ⓘ Queenan ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Departed ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lau Kin-ming ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Infernal Affairs ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | William Monahan ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Billy Costigan
ⓘ
Massachusetts State Police ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts State Police Internal Investigations
|
| filmDirector | Martin Scorsese ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Departed
ⓘ
surface form:
The Departed (2006 film)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Frank Costello ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish-American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
attempts to identify the police mole in Costello’s crew
ⓘ
feeds information to Frank Costello ⓘ infiltrates the Massachusetts State Police for the mob ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
ambitious
ⓘ
duplicitous ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| plotFunction | antagonist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matt Damon ⓘ |
| role | mole in the police force ⓘ |
| secretAffiliation |
Boston Irish mob
ⓘ
surface form:
Irish mob
|
| setting |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| worksFor | Frank Costello ⓘ |
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: Colin Sullivan Description of subject: Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.