Jack Taylor
E516968
Jack Taylor is an Irish crime drama television series, based on Ken Bruen’s novels, in which Iain Glen stars as a former Garda officer turned private investigator in Galway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Taylor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5406280 — 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: Jack Taylor Context triple: [Iain Glen, notableWork, Jack Taylor]
-
A.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
-
B.
Fabian of the Yard
Fabian of the Yard is a 1950s British television crime drama series following a Scotland Yard detective as he investigates real-life-inspired cases.
-
C.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
-
D.
Diggle
Diggle is a rural village in the Saddleworth area of Greater Manchester, England, known for its scenic Pennine setting and historic canal and railway tunnels.
-
E.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
- 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: Jack Taylor Target entity description: Jack Taylor is an Irish crime drama television series, based on Ken Bruen’s novels, in which Iain Glen stars as a former Garda officer turned private investigator in Galway.
-
A.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
-
B.
Fabian of the Yard
Fabian of the Yard is a 1950s British television crime drama series following a Scotland Yard detective as he investigates real-life-inspired cases.
-
C.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
-
D.
Diggle
Diggle is a rural village in the Saddleworth area of Greater Manchester, England, known for its scenic Pennine setting and historic canal and railway tunnels.
-
E.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish television series
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Blood Cross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Priest NERFINISHED ⓘ Sins of the Fathers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dramatist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guards NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magdalen Martyrs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pikemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Jack Taylor novels
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
works by Ken Bruen ⓘ |
| characterPlayedByIainGlen | Jack Taylor (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creator | Ken Bruen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Acorn TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| episodeFormat | feature-length episodes ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization | Garda Síochána NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingCountry | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
detective fiction
ⓘ
noir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime in Ireland
ⓘ
personal redemption ⓘ police corruption ⓘ private investigation ⓘ |
| leadActor | Iain Glen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Taylor (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 9 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
Channel 5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RTL NERFINISHED ⓘ TV3 (Ireland) NERFINISHED ⓘ ZDF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Magna Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ZDF Enterprises NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistFormerOccupation | Garda officer ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | private investigator ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Galway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor | Iain Glen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jack Taylor Description of subject: Jack Taylor is an Irish crime drama television series, based on Ken Bruen’s novels, in which Iain Glen stars as a former Garda officer turned private investigator in Galway.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.