Patrick Jane
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Patrick Jane is the brilliant, observant, and psychologically astute consultant protagonist of the TV series "The Mentalist," known for using his keen powers of deduction to solve crimes while pursuing the serial killer who murdered his family.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6444501 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Jane Context triple: [Simon Baker, characterRole, Patrick Jane]
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Adrian Monk
Adrian Monk is a brilliant but obsessive-compulsive former detective and the titular protagonist of the television series "Monk," known for his exceptional observational skills and crippling phobias.
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Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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C.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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D.
Detective Jack Graham
Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
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E.
Larry Needlemeyer
Larry Needlemeyer is a recurring character in the animated series "The Amazing World of Gumball," known as the overworked, multi-job-holding employee who appears in nearly every service role around Elmore.
- 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: Patrick Jane Target entity description: Patrick Jane is the brilliant, observant, and psychologically astute consultant protagonist of the TV series "The Mentalist," known for using his keen powers of deduction to solve crimes while pursuing the serial killer who murdered his family.
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A.
Adrian Monk
Adrian Monk is a brilliant but obsessive-compulsive former detective and the titular protagonist of the television series "Monk," known for his exceptional observational skills and crippling phobias.
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B.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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C.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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D.
Detective Jack Graham
Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
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E.
Larry Needlemeyer
Larry Needlemeyer is a recurring character in the animated series "The Amazing World of Gumball," known as the overworked, multi-job-holding employee who appears in nearly every service role around Elmore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
consultant
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fictional character ⓘ mentalist ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backstoryEvent | family murdered by serial killer Red John ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| child | Charlotte Anne Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeColleague |
Grace Van Pelt
NERFINISHED
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Kimball Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ Teresa Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Rigsby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Bruno Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature |
silver cup used for tea
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three-piece suits ⓘ vests without ties ⓘ |
| employerRole | independent consultant ⓘ |
| enemy | Red John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Mentalist, Season 1, Episode 1 "Pilot" ⓘ |
| formerOccupation |
stage psychic
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television psychic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habit |
drinks tea frequently
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often naps on the CBI couch ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Teresa Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower (before marrying Teresa Lisbon) ⓘ |
| moralView | does not believe in real psychics ⓘ |
| nationality | Portuguese-American (implied background) ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
cold reading
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deductive reasoning ⓘ keen observation ⓘ memory techniques ⓘ psychological manipulation ⓘ |
| occupation |
consultant
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former psychic medium (fraud) ⓘ illusionist ⓘ mentalist ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charming
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empathetic ⓘ manipulative ⓘ mischievous ⓘ vengeful ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Simon Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | to catch Red John ⓘ |
| spouse | Teresa Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
observation and deduction instead of forensic science
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setups and elaborate cons to expose criminals ⓘ |
| worksFor |
California Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
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Federal Bureau of Investigation 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: Patrick Jane Description of subject: Patrick Jane is the brilliant, observant, and psychologically astute consultant protagonist of the TV series "The Mentalist," known for using his keen powers of deduction to solve crimes while pursuing the serial killer who murdered his family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Patrick Jane is a former psychic medium
this entity surface form:
Patrick Jane is a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation
this entity surface form:
Patrick Jane uses keen observational skills to solve crimes