Spencer Jordan
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Spencer Jordan is a central character in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead," known for his role on the cold case investigation team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spencer Jordan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11036728 — 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: Spencer Jordan Context triple: [Waking the Dead, hasMainCharacter, Spencer Jordan]
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A.
Jesse Carmichael
Jesse Carmichael is an American musician best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Jesse Harris
Jesse Harris is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for writing Norah Jones’s Grammy-winning hit “Don’t Know Why.”
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C.
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter is an American actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Parenthood" and "Joan of Arcadia."
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D.
Dax Shepard
Dax Shepard is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and podcast host known for roles in films like "Without a Paddle" and the TV series "Parenthood," as well as for hosting the popular podcast "Armchair Expert."
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E.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
- 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: Spencer Jordan Target entity description: Spencer Jordan is a central character in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead," known for his role on the cold case investigation team.
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A.
Jesse Carmichael
Jesse Carmichael is an American musician best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Jesse Harris
Jesse Harris is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for writing Norah Jones’s Grammy-winning hit “Don’t Know Why.”
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C.
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter is an American actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in series like "Parenthood" and "Joan of Arcadia."
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D.
Dax Shepard
Dax Shepard is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and podcast host known for roles in films like "Without a Paddle" and the TV series "Parenthood," as well as for hosting the popular podcast "Armchair Expert."
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E.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Waking the Dead ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Metropolitan Police cold case unit
ⓘ
linked to:
Homicide and Major Crime Command
|
| countryOfBroadcast | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Waking the Dead universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Waking the Dead
|
| genre | crime drama character ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Grace Foley
ⓘ
Mel Silver ⓘ Peter Boyd ⓘ Stella Goodman ⓘ |
| investigates |
cold cases
ⓘ
unsolved murders ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | cold case investigation team ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Waking the Dead cast ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Spencer Jordan Description of subject: Spencer Jordan is a central character in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead," known for his role on the cold case investigation team.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.