Captain Frank McNeil
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Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Frank McNeil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794059 — 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: Captain Frank McNeil Context triple: [Dan Frazer, portrayed, Captain Frank McNeil]
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A.
Captain Frank Camparelli
Captain Frank Camparelli is a fictional U.S. Navy officer character, best known as the commanding submarine captain in the film "The Beast of War" (also known as "The Beast").
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B.
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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C.
Captain James Deakins
Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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D.
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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E.
Captain Ed Mercer
Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
- 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 Frank McNeil Target entity description: Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
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A.
Captain Frank Camparelli
Captain Frank Camparelli is a fictional U.S. Navy officer character, best known as the commanding submarine captain in the film "The Beast of War" (also known as "The Beast").
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B.
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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C.
Captain James Deakins
Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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D.
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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E.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Kojak ⓘ |
| basedOn | New York City Police Department captain (archetype) ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalUniverse |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | New York City Police Department ⓘ |
| familyName |
McNeil
ⓘ
linked to:
MacNeil
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| fictionalCity | New York City ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Kojak ⓘ |
| fullName | Frank McNeil ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver | detectives in his precinct ⓘ |
| isColleagueOf |
Theo Kojak
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linked to:
Lieutenant Theo Kojak
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| isSuperiorOf |
Theo Kojak
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linked to:
Lieutenant Theo Kojak
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| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| occupation | police captain ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kojak franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Kojak
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| position | police captain ⓘ |
| rank | captain ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
Kojak's superior officer
ⓘ
supporting character in Kojak ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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 Frank McNeil Description of subject: Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.