Jackson Lamb
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Jackson Lamb is the slovenly, sharp-tongued but brilliant MI5 spymaster who leads the disgraced agents of Slough House in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jackson Lamb canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3292303 — 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: Jackson Lamb Context triple: [Slow Horses, characterFocus, Jackson Lamb]
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A.
Frank Pearce
Frank Pearce is a video game developer and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, known for helping build some of the most influential franchises in modern gaming.
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B.
John Lamb
John Lamb was an American Revolutionary leader and artillery officer who played a prominent role in New York’s patriot movement and the Sons of Liberty.
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C.
Martin Bladen
Martin Bladen was an 18th-century British politician and colonial administrator whose influence in imperial affairs led to places such as Bladen County, North Carolina being named in his honor.
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D.
George Mara
George Mara was a Romanian ice hockey player best known for winning a silver medal with the Romanian national team at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
- 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: Jackson Lamb Target entity description: Jackson Lamb is the slovenly, sharp-tongued but brilliant MI5 spymaster who leads the disgraced agents of Slough House in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series.
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A.
Frank Pearce
Frank Pearce is a video game developer and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, known for helping build some of the most influential franchises in modern gaming.
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B.
John Lamb
John Lamb was an American Revolutionary leader and artillery officer who played a prominent role in New York’s patriot movement and the Sons of Liberty.
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C.
Martin Bladen
Martin Bladen was an 18th-century British politician and colonial administrator whose influence in imperial affairs led to places such as Bladen County, North Carolina being named in his honor.
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D.
George Mara
George Mara was a Romanian ice hockey player best known for winning a silver medal with the Romanian national team at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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novel character ⓘ spy ⓘ spymaster ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Slow Horses
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surface form:
Slow Horses (TV series)
|
| affiliation |
Security Service (MI5)
ⓘ
surface form:
MI5
|
| appearsIn |
Bad Actors
ⓘ
Dead Lions ⓘ Joe Country ⓘ London Rules ⓘ "Real Tigers" (2016 novel) ⓘ
surface form:
Real Tigers
Slough House series ⓘ
surface form:
Slough House
Slow Horses ⓘ
surface form:
Slow Horses (novel)
Spook Street ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cold War–era British intelligence archetypes ⓘ |
| characteristic |
brilliant
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cynical ⓘ highly skilled spy ⓘ manipulative ⓘ sharp-tongued ⓘ slovenly ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Mick Herron ⓘ |
| employer |
Security Service (MI5)
ⓘ
surface form:
MI5
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Slough House series
ⓘ
Slow Horses ⓘ
surface form:
Slow Horses series
|
| firstAppearance |
Slough House series
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surface form:
Slow Horses (2010 novel)
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| formerOccupation | field agent ⓘ |
| genre | spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Catherine Standish
ⓘ
Louisa Guy ⓘ Min Harper ⓘ River Cartwright ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | espionage thriller ⓘ |
| medium | novels ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading disgraced MI5 agents
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unorthodox intelligence methods ⓘ |
| occupation | intelligence officer ⓘ |
| personality |
abrasive
ⓘ
protective of his team ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gary Oldman ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
John Murray
ⓘ
surface form:
John Murray (Slough House novels publisher)
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| role |
head of Slough House
ⓘ
leader of the Slow Horses ⓘ |
| setting | post–Cold War British intelligence ⓘ |
| team | Slow Horses ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Slough House series ⓘ
surface form:
Slough House
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jackson Lamb Description of subject: Jackson Lamb is the slovenly, sharp-tongued but brilliant MI5 spymaster who leads the disgraced agents of Slough House in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dead Lions
subject surface form:
Real Tigers