Harry Palmer
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Harry Palmer is a fictional British intelligence agent, popularized in a series of Cold War-era spy novels by Len Deighton and their film adaptations starring Michael Caine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Palmer canonical | 7 |
| Harry Palmer film series | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6494265 — 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: Harry Palmer Context triple: [Jo Hayden, hasLoveInterest, Harry Palmer]
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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B.
Raymond Shaw
Raymond Shaw is the brainwashed Korean War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient whose programmed assassination role drives the political thriller plot of "The Manchurian Candidate."
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C.
Peter Guillam
Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
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D.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
- 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: Harry Palmer Target entity description: Harry Palmer is a fictional British intelligence agent, popularized in a series of Cold War-era spy novels by Len Deighton and their film adaptations starring Michael Caine.
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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B.
Raymond Shaw
Raymond Shaw is the brainwashed Korean War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient whose programmed assassination role drives the political thriller plot of "The Manchurian Candidate."
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C.
Peter Guillam
Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
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D.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Billion Dollar Brain (1967 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Billion Dollar Brain
Bullet to Beijing (1995 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Bullet to Beijing
Funeral in Berlin (1966 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Funeral in Berlin
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996 film) ⓘ The Ipcress File (1965 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Ipcress File
|
| appearsIn |
Billion-Dollar Brain
ⓘ
linked to:
Billion Dollar Brain
Bullet to Beijing ⓘ Funeral in Berlin ⓘ Midnight in Saint Petersburg ⓘ The Ipcress File ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
sarcastic ⓘ working-class background ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Len Deighton ⓘ |
| employer |
British intelligence
ⓘ
Ministry of Defence (fictional department context) ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Defence
|
| familyName | Palmer ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Len Deighton spy novels universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Len Deighton
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | spy fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
crime fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| influenced | later realistic spy characters in film and television ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | realistic British intelligence practices (general) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
anti-establishment attitude
ⓘ
bureaucratic, realistic depiction of espionage ⓘ wearing thick-rimmed glasses ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting | Cold War ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
ⓘ
secret agent ⓘ |
| partOf | British spy fiction tradition ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Caine ⓘ |
| 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: Harry Palmer Description of subject: Harry Palmer is a fictional British intelligence agent, popularized in a series of Cold War-era spy novels by Len Deighton and their film adaptations starring Michael Caine.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry Palmer
linked to: Harry Palmer
linked to: Harry Palmer