Detective Nick Yemana
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Detective Nick Yemana is the deadpan, coffee-brewing detective character from the classic TV sitcom "Barney Miller," portrayed by actor Jack Soo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective Nick Yemana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8500958 — 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: Detective Nick Yemana Context triple: [Jack Soo, notableRole, Detective Nick Yemana]
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A.
Detective Nathan Leckie
Detective Nathan Leckie is a fictional police detective and key law-enforcement figure in the Australian crime drama film "Animal Kingdom."
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B.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
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C.
Detective Jake Rodriguez
Detective Jake Rodriguez is a central law-enforcement character in the crime drama series "Gang Related," navigating complex loyalties between the police and criminal underworld.
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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.
Detective Chris Lecce
Detective Chris Lecce is the wisecracking, street-smart Seattle cop portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1987 buddy-cop comedy film "Stakeout."
- 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: Detective Nick Yemana Target entity description: Detective Nick Yemana is the deadpan, coffee-brewing detective character from the classic TV sitcom "Barney Miller," portrayed by actor Jack Soo.
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A.
Detective Nathan Leckie
Detective Nathan Leckie is a fictional police detective and key law-enforcement figure in the Australian crime drama film "Animal Kingdom."
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B.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
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C.
Detective Jake Rodriguez
Detective Jake Rodriguez is a central law-enforcement character in the crime drama series "Gang Related," navigating complex loyalties between the police and criminal underworld.
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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.
Detective Chris Lecce
Detective Chris Lecce is the wisecracking, street-smart Seattle cop portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1987 buddy-cop comedy film "Stakeout."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Barney Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jack Soo’s real-life background as a Japanese American actor ⓘ |
| basedOn | New York City police detectives (loosely) ⓘ |
| characteristic |
deadpan sense of humor
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habit of making terrible coffee ⓘ laid-back demeanor ⓘ |
| colleague |
Captain Barney Miller
NERFINISHED
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Detective Ron Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Detective Stan Wojciehowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ Officer Carl Levitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant Nick Levitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant Philip Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Danny Arnold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Theodore J. Flicker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Barney Miller universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Barney Miller season 1 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| houseSpecialty | office coffee ⓘ |
| humorStyle | deadpan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
brewing notoriously bad coffee at the precinct
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dry, understated one-liners ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | 12th Precinct detective squad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
comic relief
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of Barney Miller ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Soo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | detective in the 12th Precinct ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| televisionNetwork | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | 1970s ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Greenwich Village
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manhattan 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: Detective Nick Yemana Description of subject: Detective Nick Yemana is the deadpan, coffee-brewing detective character from the classic TV sitcom "Barney Miller," portrayed by actor Jack Soo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.