Odafin Tutuola
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Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective portrayed by Ice-T on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Odafin Tutuola canonical | 6 |
| Odafin "Fin" Tutuola | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759894 — 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: Odafin Tutuola Context triple: [Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, mainCharacter, Odafin Tutuola]
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
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C.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for his classic novel "The Concubine" and his contributions to African literature.
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D.
Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist renowned for his visionary, magic-realist works such as the Booker Prize–winning novel "The Famished Road."
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E.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
- 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: Odafin Tutuola Target entity description: Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective portrayed by Ice-T on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a pioneering Nigerian novelist, best known for his influential work "Things Fall Apart" and for shaping modern African literature.
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C.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for his classic novel "The Concubine" and his contributions to African literature.
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D.
Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist renowned for his visionary, magic-realist works such as the Booker Prize–winning novel "The Famished Road."
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E.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Odafin Tutuola Description of subject: Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective portrayed by Ice-T on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Odafin Tutuola
subject linked to:
Dr. George Huang in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
subject linked to:
Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T
linked to: Odafin Tutuola