Inspector MacDonald
E769387
Inspector MacDonald is a Scotland Yard detective who assists Sherlock Holmes in investigating the complex murder case at the center of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Valley of Fear."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inspector MacDonald canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935104 — 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 MacDonald Context triple: [The Valley of Fear, featuresCharacter, Inspector MacDonald]
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A.
Inspector Gregson
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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B.
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.
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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.
Inspector Lewis Erskine
Inspector Lewis Erskine is the dedicated and methodical FBI agent protagonist of the classic American television crime drama "The F.B.I."
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E.
Inspector Lonergan
Inspector Lonergan is a fictional police inspector featured in the 1932 mystery film "The Night Club Lady."
- 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 MacDonald Target entity description: Inspector MacDonald is a Scotland Yard detective who assists Sherlock Holmes in investigating the complex murder case at the center of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Valley of Fear."
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A.
Inspector Gregson
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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B.
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.
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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.
Inspector Lewis Erskine
Inspector Lewis Erskine is the dedicated and methodical FBI agent protagonist of the classic American television crime drama "The F.B.I."
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E.
Inspector Lonergan
Inspector Lonergan is a fictional police inspector featured in the 1932 mystery film "The Night Club Lady."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scotland Yard inspector
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ police detective ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Valley of Fear ⓘ |
| assists |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| associatedWith |
221B Baker Street
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| createdBy | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| employer |
Scotland Yard
ⓘ
linked to:
New Scotland Yard
|
| fictionalUniverse | Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Valley of Fear ⓘ |
| genre | detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| investigates | murder case in The Valley of Fear ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | detective ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character in The Valley of Fear ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Dr. John Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
|
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 MacDonald Description of subject: Inspector MacDonald is a Scotland Yard detective who assists Sherlock Holmes in investigating the complex murder case at the center of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Valley of Fear."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.