Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria
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Josh Folsom is a main crime-scene investigator character in CSI: Vegas, depicted as a skilled yet personally conflicted member of the Las Vegas forensics team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8514778 — 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: Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria Context triple: [CSI: Vegas, portrayedBy, Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria]
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A.
Matt Fallon
Matt Fallon is an American heavy metal singer best known for his early involvement with bands like Skid Row and Anthrax before they rose to mainstream fame.
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B.
Drew Ferguson
Drew Ferguson is an American Republican politician and dentist serving as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
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C.
Charlie Hanson
Charlie Hanson is a British television producer known for his work on acclaimed comedy series, particularly collaborations with Ricky Gervais.
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D.
Jason Fuchs
Jason Fuchs is an American screenwriter and actor best known for writing major studio films such as Wonder Woman (2017) and Pan (2015).
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E.
Josh Futturman
Josh Futturman is the slacker janitor-turned-time-traveling hero played by Josh Hutcherson in the sci-fi comedy series "Future Man."
- 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: Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria Target entity description: Josh Folsom is a main crime-scene investigator character in CSI: Vegas, depicted as a skilled yet personally conflicted member of the Las Vegas forensics team.
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A.
Matt Fallon
Matt Fallon is an American heavy metal singer best known for his early involvement with bands like Skid Row and Anthrax before they rose to mainstream fame.
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B.
Drew Ferguson
Drew Ferguson is an American Republican politician and dentist serving as a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
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C.
Charlie Hanson
Charlie Hanson is a British television producer known for his work on acclaimed comedy series, particularly collaborations with Ricky Gervais.
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D.
Jason Fuchs
Jason Fuchs is an American screenwriter and actor best known for writing major studio films such as Wonder Woman (2017) and Pan (2015).
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E.
Josh Futturman
Josh Futturman is the slacker janitor-turned-time-traveling hero played by Josh Hutcherson in the sci-fi comedy series "Future Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ television character ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn | CSI: Vegas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Las Vegas Crime Lab ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
personally conflicted
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skilled ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main character ⓘ |
| notableWork | CSI: Vegas ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
crime-scene investigator ⓘ forensic investigator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
CSI franchise
ⓘ
CSI franchise ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matt Lauria ⓘ |
| portrays | Josh Folsom ⓘ |
| setIn |
Las Vegas
ⓘ
linked to:
Las Vegas, Nevada
|
| teamMembership | Las Vegas forensics team ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Las Vegas
ⓘ
linked to:
Las Vegas, Nevada
|
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: Josh Folsom|Matt Lauria Description of subject: Josh Folsom is a main crime-scene investigator character in CSI: Vegas, depicted as a skilled yet personally conflicted member of the Las Vegas forensics team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.