Bill Hodges
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Bill Hodges is a retired police detective who serves as the central protagonist in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges crime trilogy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Hodges canonical | 11 |
| retired detective Bill Hodges | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8318906 — 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: Bill Hodges Context triple: [End of Watch, mainCharacter, Bill Hodges]
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A.
Bill Hodges
Bill Hodges is an American basketball coach best known for leading the Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA championship game.
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B.
Jack Hodges
Jack Hodges is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hodges, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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C.
Bill Denbrough
Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
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D.
Don Galloway
Don Galloway was an American actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the television series "Ironside."
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E.
Rayford Young
Rayford Young is a former Texas Tech college basketball player best known as the father of NBA All-Star point guard Trae Young.
- 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: Bill Hodges Target entity description: Bill Hodges is a retired police detective who serves as the central protagonist in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges crime trilogy.
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A.
Bill Hodges
Bill Hodges is an American basketball coach best known for leading the Larry Bird–led Indiana State Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA championship game.
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B.
Jack Hodges
Jack Hodges is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hodges, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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C.
Bill Denbrough
Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
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D.
Don Galloway
Don Galloway was an American actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the television series "Ironside."
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E.
Rayford Young
Rayford Young is a former Texas Tech college basketball player best known as the father of NBA All-Star point guard Trae Young.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ageStatus | elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
End of Watch
ⓘ
Finders Keepers ⓘ Mr. Mercedes ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Mercedes (TV series)
|
| associatedWith |
Brady Hartsfield
ⓘ
Holly Gibney ⓘ Jerome Robinson ⓘ |
| characterType | flawed hero ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Mr. Mercedes
ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Mercedes (TV series)
|
| formerEmployer | police department ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCase | Mr. Mercedes mass murder case ⓘ |
| occupation |
police detective
ⓘ
private investigator ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bill Hodges Trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
Bill Hodges trilogy
|
| role | central protagonist ⓘ |
| seriesOrder | first book protagonist in the Bill Hodges Trilogy ⓘ |
| setting | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
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: Bill Hodges Description of subject: Bill Hodges is a retired police detective who serves as the central protagonist in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges crime trilogy.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.