Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis
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Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective Sergeant Lewis | 2 |
| Chief Inspector Robbie Lewis | 1 |
| Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis | 1 |
| Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2595173 — 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: Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis Context triple: [Kevin Whately, notableRole, Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis]
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A.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Peter Smithers
Peter Smithers was a British Conservative politician, diplomat, and former intelligence officer who notably served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe in the 1960s.
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E.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
- 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: Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis Target entity description: Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
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A.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Peter Smithers
Peter Smithers was a British Conservative politician, diplomat, and former intelligence officer who notably served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe in the 1960s.
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E.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Inspector Morse
ⓘ
Lewis ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Inspector Morse
ⓘ
surface form:
Inspector Morse novels universe
|
| characterTrait |
down-to-earth
ⓘ
hard-working ⓘ loyal ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Colin Dexter ⓘ |
| employer | Thames Valley Police ⓘ |
| familyStatus | widower ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Inspector Lewis
ⓘ
surface form:
Inspector Morse universe
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter (unnamed in description)
ⓘ
son (unnamed in description) ⓘ |
| hasRank | Detective Sergeant ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| laterRank | Detective Inspector ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
lead role in Lewis
ⓘ
supporting role in Inspector Morse ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective sergeant
ⓘ
police detective ⓘ |
| partOf |
Inspector Lewis
ⓘ
surface form:
Inspector Morse franchise
|
| portrayedBy | Kevin Whately ⓘ |
| positionInSeries |
Morse’s sidekick
ⓘ
junior partner to Inspector Morse ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| spinoffSeries | Lewis ⓘ |
| televisionDebutWork | Inspector Morse ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
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: Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis Description of subject: Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chief Inspector Robbie Lewis
this entity surface form:
Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis
this entity surface form:
Detective Sergeant Lewis
this entity surface form:
Detective Sergeant Lewis