Sheldon Hawkes
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Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheldon Hawkes canonical | 8 |
| Dr. Sheldon Hawkes | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342840 — 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: Sheldon Hawkes Context triple: [CSI: NY, mainCharacter, Sheldon Hawkes]
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A.
Sheldon Lane
Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
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B.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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C.
Harry Robbins
Harry Robbins "H. R." Haldeman was an American political aide who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and became a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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E.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
- 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: Sheldon Hawkes Target entity description: Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
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A.
Sheldon Lane
Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
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B.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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C.
Harry Robbins
Harry Robbins "H. R." Haldeman was an American political aide who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and became a central figure in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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E.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime scene investigator
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fictional character ⓘ forensic pathologist ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | CSI: NY ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise | CSI franchise ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | police procedural television series ⓘ |
| basedInFictionalUniverse | New York City ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brilliant
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dedicated ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department Crime Lab ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | CSI: NY ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | surgeon ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
crime scene investigation
ⓘ
forensic pathology ⓘ |
| hasFullName |
Sheldon Hawkes
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime scene investigator
ⓘ
forensic pathologist ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | CSI: NY ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hill Harper ⓘ |
| worksIn | New York City ⓘ |
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: Sheldon Hawkes Description of subject: Sheldon Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon turned forensic pathologist and crime scene investigator on the television series CSI: NY.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
this entity surface form:
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
this entity surface form:
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
subject surface form:
Mac Taylor