Harold Finch
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Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harold Finch canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4035688 — 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: Harold Finch Context triple: [Person of Interest, mainCharacter, Harold Finch]
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A.
Winston Bishop
Winston Bishop is a quirky, big-hearted former athlete turned prank-loving roommate on the sitcom "New Girl," known for his eccentric humor and deep loyalty to his friends.
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B.
Sam Coulson
Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
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C.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Elliot Alderson
Elliot Alderson is the socially anxious, morphine-addicted cybersecurity engineer and hacker protagonist of the television series "Mr. Robot."
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E.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
- 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: Harold Finch Target entity description: Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
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A.
Winston Bishop
Winston Bishop is a quirky, big-hearted former athlete turned prank-loving roommate on the sitcom "New Girl," known for his eccentric humor and deep loyalty to his friends.
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B.
Sam Coulson
Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
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C.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Elliot Alderson
Elliot Alderson is the socially anxious, morphine-addicted cybersecurity engineer and hacker protagonist of the television series "Mr. Robot."
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E.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| allyOf |
John Reese
ⓘ
Root ⓘ Sameen Shaw ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Person of Interest ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Nathan Ingram ⓘ |
| coFounds | Ift Inc. ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jonathan Nolan ⓘ |
| creator | The Machine ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Decima Technologies
ⓘ
Samaritan ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Person of Interest
ⓘ
surface form:
Pilot (Person of Interest episode)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Harold Thompson
ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Anderson
Harold Martin ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Anderson Jr.
Harold Burdett ⓘ Harold Burdett ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Burdett Jr.
Harold Burdick NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Crane ⓘ Harold Crane ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Crane Jr.
Harold Crow ⓘ Harold Erickson ⓘ Harold Erickson ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Erickson Jr.
Harold King ⓘ Harold Kingman ⓘ Harold Martin ⓘ Harold Porter ⓘ Harold Porter Jr. ⓘ Harold Quail ⓘ Harold Quail ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Quail Jr.
Harold R. Wren NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Renfield ⓘ Harold Renfrew ⓘ Harold S. Wren NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Swift ⓘ Harold T. Wren NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Thompson ⓘ Harold Thompson ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Thompson Jr.
Harold Turpin ⓘ Harold Warren ⓘ Harold Warren ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Warren Jr.
Harold Whistler ⓘ Harold Whistler ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Whistler Jr.
Harold White ⓘ Harold White ⓘ
surface form:
Harold White Jr.
Harold Wren ⓘ Harold Zimmerman ⓘ Harold Zimmerman ⓘ
surface form:
Harold Zimmerman Jr.
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| hasCharacteristic |
physically disabled
ⓘ
reclusive ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of a mass-surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes ⓘ |
| occupation |
billionaire entrepreneur
ⓘ
computer programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ systems architect ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Emerson ⓘ |
| residesIn | New York City ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
surveillance systems ⓘ |
| usesAssistiveDevice | cane ⓘ |
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: Harold Finch Description of subject: Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Detective Jocelyn Carter