Mycroft Holmes
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Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, depicted as Sherlock’s even more intellectually gifted but politically influential older brother.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycroft Holmes canonical | 30 |
| Mycroft | 1 |
| Mycroft Holmes in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5927705 — 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: Mycroft Holmes Context triple: [Charles Gray, portrayed, Mycroft Holmes]
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A.
Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is the loyal friend, assistant, and biographer of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories.
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B.
Cornelius Sherlock
Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
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C.
Hugh Sherlock
Hugh Sherlock was a Jamaican clergyman, social worker, and poet best known for writing the lyrics of Jamaica’s national anthem.
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D.
Colonel John Watson
Colonel John Watson was a British army officer and antiquarian whose extensive collection of art and historical artifacts led to the founding of the Watson Museum in Rajkot, India.
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E.
Inspector Lestrade
Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for his dogged police work and frequent collaboration with Holmes despite often being outshone by the detective’s brilliance.
- 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: Mycroft Holmes Target entity description: Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, depicted as Sherlock’s even more intellectually gifted but politically influential older brother.
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A.
Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is the loyal friend, assistant, and biographer of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories.
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B.
Cornelius Sherlock
Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
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C.
Hugh Sherlock
Hugh Sherlock was a Jamaican clergyman, social worker, and poet best known for writing the lyrics of Jamaica’s national anthem.
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D.
Colonel John Watson
Colonel John Watson was a British army officer and antiquarian whose extensive collection of art and historical artifacts led to the founding of the Watson Museum in Rajkot, India.
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E.
Inspector Lestrade
Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for his dogged police work and frequent collaboration with Holmes despite often being outshone by the detective’s brilliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ male character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sherlock Holmes stories
ⓘ
The Bruce-Partington Plans ⓘ The Diogenes Club ⓘ The Greek Interpreter ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation |
Elementary (TV series)
ⓘ
Sherlock (2010 TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes (various film adaptations) ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes film series
various Sherlock Holmes radio adaptations ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection |
His Last Bow
ⓘ
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| associatedWith | 221B Baker Street (through Sherlock Holmes) ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
high intelligence
ⓘ
laziness ⓘ observational skills ⓘ powers of deduction ⓘ reclusiveness ⓘ |
| createdInPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| creator | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| describedAs |
more intelligent than Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
politically influential ⓘ |
| employer |
British government
ⓘ
linked to:
UK government
|
| familyName | Holmes ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Sherlock Holmes universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes stories
|
| frequents | Diogenes Club ⓘ |
| genre | detective fiction character ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mycroft
ⓘ
linked to:
Mycroft Holmes
|
| hasCharacteristic |
corpulent build
ⓘ
dislikes fieldwork ⓘ |
| influences | British policy decisions in the stories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Diogenes Club ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | consultant for the British government ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
British government official
ⓘ
civil servant ⓘ |
| relative |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| residence |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| role | advisor to the British government ⓘ |
| sibling |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Mycroft Holmes Description of subject: Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, depicted as Sherlock’s even more intellectually gifted but politically influential older brother.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mycroft Holmes
subject linked to:
Donald Marshall Gray
linked to: Mycroft Holmes
subject linked to:
Elementary (TV series)
subject linked to:
later adventures of Sherlock Holmes