Lance Stater
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Lance Stater is a central character in the British comedy series "Detectorists," portrayed as an earnest, somewhat melancholic metal-detecting enthusiast and best friend of Andy Stone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lance Stater canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398074 — 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: Lance Stater Context triple: [Detectorists, mainCharacter, Lance Stater]
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A.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
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B.
Lance LePere
Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
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C.
Lance Johnson
Lance Johnson is a film producer known for his work on the biographical comedy-drama "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
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D.
Ben Lutch
Ben Lutch is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the early internet search and web portal company Excite.
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E.
Lance Leipold
Lance Leipold is an American college football coach known for successfully rebuilding programs, most notably turning around the University of Kansas Jayhawks football team after winning multiple Division III national titles at Wisconsin–Whitewater.
- 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: Lance Stater Target entity description: Lance Stater is a central character in the British comedy series "Detectorists," portrayed as an earnest, somewhat melancholic metal-detecting enthusiast and best friend of Andy Stone.
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A.
Lance Cumson
Lance Cumson is a central, often scheming heir in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his turbulent family and romantic entanglements.
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B.
Lance LePere
Lance LePere is an American fashion designer and longtime creative collaborator best known as the husband of designer Michael Kors.
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C.
Lance Johnson
Lance Johnson is a film producer known for his work on the biographical comedy-drama "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
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D.
Ben Lutch
Ben Lutch is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the early internet search and web portal company Excite.
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E.
Lance Leipold
Lance Leipold is an American college football coach known for successfully rebuilding programs, most notably turning around the University of Kansas Jayhawks football team after winning multiple Division III national titles at Wisconsin–Whitewater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Detectorists ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mackenzie Crook ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn |
Detectorists series 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Detectorists
|
| genre | comedy television series character ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Andy Stone ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Lance Stater ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
comic protagonist ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
earnest
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ melancholic ⓘ |
| hobby | metal detecting ⓘ |
| isBestFriendOf | Andy Stone ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Danebury Metal Detecting Club ⓘ |
| occupation | metal detectorist ⓘ |
| partOf | Detectorists cast of main characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Toby Jones ⓘ |
| setting | Danebury ⓘ |
| worksWith | Andy Stone ⓘ |
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: Lance Stater Description of subject: Lance Stater is a central character in the British comedy series "Detectorists," portrayed as an earnest, somewhat melancholic metal-detecting enthusiast and best friend of Andy Stone.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.