Captain Jim Brass
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Captain Jim Brass is a gruff, world-weary homicide detective and key supporting character on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Jim Brass canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9436209 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Jim Brass Context triple: [Paul Guilfoyle, notableRole, Captain Jim Brass]
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A.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain Guy
Captain Guy is a fictional ship’s captain and central character in Herman Melville’s novel "Omoo," depicted as an ineffectual and often comically flawed leader.
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- 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: Captain Jim Brass Target entity description: Captain Jim Brass is a gruff, world-weary homicide detective and key supporting character on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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A.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain Guy
Captain Guy is a fictional ship’s captain and central character in Herman Melville’s novel "Omoo," depicted as an ineffectual and often comically flawed leader.
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backstoryElement |
former member of Vice
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has troubled marriage history ⓘ transferred from Vice to homicide ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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gruff ⓘ protective ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ world-weary ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Brass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelationship | estranged from daughter Ellie Brass ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | CSI universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Brass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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police procedural ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver | Las Vegas homicide detectives ⓘ |
| hasDaughter | Ellie Brass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRank | Captain ⓘ |
| investigates | homicide cases ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
CSI team
ⓘ
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
police liaison to CSI team
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
dry sense of humor
ⓘ
experienced cop ⓘ streetwise ⓘ |
| occupation |
homicide detective
ⓘ
police captain ⓘ |
| partOf | CSI franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Guilfoyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | Captain ⓘ |
| typicalClothing | suit and tie ⓘ |
| weapon | service handgun ⓘ |
| workLocation | Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Catherine Willows
NERFINISHED
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Gil Grissom NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Stokes NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Sidle NERFINISHED ⓘ Warrick Brown 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: Captain Jim Brass Description of subject: Captain Jim Brass is a gruff, world-weary homicide detective and key supporting character on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.