Inspector Gregson
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Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Inspector Gregson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935038 — 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: Inspector Gregson Context triple: [A Study in Scarlet, featuresCharacter, Inspector Gregson]
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A.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
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B.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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C.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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D.
Chief Inspector Hubbard
Chief Inspector Hubbard is the shrewd, methodical Scotland Yard detective who unravels the murder plot in Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Dial M for Murder."
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E.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
- 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: Inspector Gregson Target entity description: Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
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A.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
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B.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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C.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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D.
Chief Inspector Hubbard
Chief Inspector Hubbard is the shrewd, methodical Scotland Yard detective who unravels the murder plot in Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Dial M for Murder."
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E.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Inspector Gregson Description of subject: Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.