Cole Lockhart
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Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cole Lockhart canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6091983 — 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: Cole Lockhart Context triple: [The Affair, mainCharacter, Cole Lockhart]
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A.
Ross Lockhart
Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
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B.
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films and on stage during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson is a film producer best known for his work on Wes Anderson’s movies, including the acclaimed feature "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
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D.
Andrew Millar
Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
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E.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
- 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: Cole Lockhart Target entity description: Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
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A.
Ross Lockhart
Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
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B.
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films and on stage during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson is a film producer best known for his work on Wes Anderson’s movies, including the acclaimed feature "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
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D.
Andrew Millar
Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
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E.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Affair ⓘ |
| basedInWork |
The Affair (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Affair
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| familyName | Lockhart ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Affair, season 1 ⓘ |
| genre | television drama character ⓘ |
| hasChild | Joanie Lockhart ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Alison Bailey ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Cherry Lockhart
ⓘ
Cole’s brothers ⓘ Scotty Lockhart ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
family loyalty
ⓘ
grief ⓘ infidelity ⓘ |
| network | Showtime ⓘ |
| occupation |
fisherman
ⓘ
restaurateur ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Joshua Jackson ⓘ |
| residence | Montauk ⓘ |
| setting |
Montauk, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Montauk
|
| spouse | Alison Bailey ⓘ |
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: Cole Lockhart Description of subject: Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.