Donald Ressler
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Donald Ressler is a principled and by-the-book FBI agent who becomes a central figure in the task force pursuing Raymond "Red" Reddington in the TV series "The Blacklist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald Ressler canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9016563 — 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: Donald Ressler Context triple: [The Blacklist, character, Donald Ressler]
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A.
Richard Haldeman
Richard Haldeman was an American journalist and public relations executive, best known as the father of H. R. Haldeman, President Richard Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff.
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B.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
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C.
John Garrison
John Garrison is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for his solo work and for contributing bass and backing vocals to James Blunt’s music.
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D.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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E.
James S. Voss
James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
- 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: Donald Ressler Target entity description: Donald Ressler is a principled and by-the-book FBI agent who becomes a central figure in the task force pursuing Raymond "Red" Reddington in the TV series "The Blacklist."
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A.
Richard Haldeman
Richard Haldeman was an American journalist and public relations executive, best known as the father of H. R. Haldeman, President Richard Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff.
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B.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
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C.
John Garrison
John Garrison is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for his solo work and for contributing bass and backing vocals to James Blunt’s music.
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D.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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E.
James S. Voss
James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alina Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aram Mojtabai NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Keen NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Reddington NERFINISHED ⓘ Samar Navabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
by-the-book
ⓘ
duty-driven ⓘ loyal ⓘ principled ⓘ |
| conflictedAbout | Raymond Reddington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Blacklist season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| initialGoal | capture Raymond Reddington ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Elizabeth Keen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | lawful ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | law-enforcement perspective on Reddington ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | FBI agent ⓘ |
| organization | FBI Counterterrorism Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Diego Klattenhoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | Special Agent ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | balancing duty with compromises required by Reddington deal ⓘ |
| roleInSeries | main character ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| teamRole |
field agent
ⓘ
tactical lead ⓘ |
| worksFor | Reddington task force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksUnder | Harold Cooper 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: Donald Ressler Description of subject: Donald Ressler is a principled and by-the-book FBI agent who becomes a central figure in the task force pursuing Raymond "Red" Reddington in the TV series "The Blacklist."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.