Dan Griffin
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Dan Griffin is a fictional detective and member of the cold case-solving Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad in the British television series "New Tricks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Griffin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317775 — 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)
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Target entity: Dan Griffin Context triple: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Dan Griffin]
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A.
Jeff Fisher
Jeff Fisher is an American football coach best known for his long tenure as head coach of the Tennessee Titans in the NFL.
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B.
Al Davis
Al Davis was a legendary American football executive and owner best known for his long, influential tenure leading the Raiders franchise and his iconic "Just win, baby" philosophy.
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C.
Doug Williams
Doug Williams is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl XXII victory as the game's MVP and for being the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
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D.
Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves was a longtime NFL head coach and former player best known for leading the Denver Broncos to multiple Super Bowl appearances and later coaching the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
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E.
Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden is an American football coach and former broadcaster best known for leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title and later serving as head coach of the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.
- 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: Dan Griffin Target entity description: Dan Griffin is a fictional detective and member of the cold case-solving Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad in the British television series "New Tricks."
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A.
Jeff Fisher
Jeff Fisher is an American football coach best known for his long tenure as head coach of the Tennessee Titans in the NFL.
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B.
Al Davis
Al Davis was a legendary American football executive and owner best known for his long, influential tenure leading the Raiders franchise and his iconic "Just win, baby" philosophy.
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C.
Doug Williams
Doug Williams is a former NFL quarterback best known for leading the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl XXII victory as the game's MVP and for being the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
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D.
Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves was a longtime NFL head coach and former player best known for leading the Denver Broncos to multiple Super Bowl appearances and later coaching the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons.
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E.
Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden is an American football coach and former broadcaster best known for leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title and later serving as head coach of the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Tricks ⓘ |
| appearsInFormat | episodic television ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | BBC ⓘ |
| employer |
Metropolitan Police (fictional depiction)
ⓘ
linked to:
Metropolitan Police District
|
| fictionalUniverse | New Tricks ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Brian Lane
ⓘ
Gerry Standing ⓘ Sandra Pullman ⓘ Steve McAndrew ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | British crime television ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| memberOf | Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | solves unsolved crimes ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting |
modern-day London
ⓘ
linked to:
contemporary London
|
| occupation | detective ⓘ |
| partOf | New Tricks cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | British television ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | investigating historical crimes ⓘ |
| teamRole | detective in UCOS ⓘ |
| workFocus | cold cases ⓘ |
| workUnit | UCOS ⓘ |
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: Dan Griffin Description of subject: Dan Griffin is a fictional detective and member of the cold case-solving Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad in the British television series "New Tricks."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.