Matt Parkman
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Matt Parkman is a fictional police officer with telepathic abilities in the television series "Heroes."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Parkman canonical | 9 |
| Matt Parkman Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11037022 — 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: Matt Parkman Context triple: [Heroes, hasMainCharacter, Matt Parkman]
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A.
Chauncey Goss
Chauncey Goss is an American public official and policy analyst known for his work in fiscal policy and water management in Florida.
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B.
Louis Tully
Louis Tully is a nerdy, well-meaning accountant and neighbor of Dana Barrett who becomes a comedic, possessed pawn of Gozer in the Ghostbusters films.
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C.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
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D.
Henry McHenry
Henry McHenry is an American paleoanthropologist and professor known for his research on human evolution, particularly the biomechanics and locomotion of early hominins.
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E.
Franklin Keeler
Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
- 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: Matt Parkman Target entity description: Matt Parkman is a fictional police officer with telepathic abilities in the television series "Heroes."
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A.
Chauncey Goss
Chauncey Goss is an American public official and policy analyst known for his work in fiscal policy and water management in Florida.
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B.
Louis Tully
Louis Tully is a nerdy, well-meaning accountant and neighbor of Dana Barrett who becomes a comedic, possessed pawn of Gozer in the Ghostbusters films.
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C.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
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D.
Henry McHenry
Henry McHenry is an American paleoanthropologist and professor known for his research on human evolution, particularly the biomechanics and locomotion of early hominins.
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E.
Franklin Keeler
Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
telepath ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Hiro Nakamura
ⓘ
Mohinder Suresh ⓘ Noah Bennet ⓘ Peter Petrelli ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Heroes ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Heroes season 1
ⓘ
Heroes season 2 ⓘ Heroes season 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Heroes (television series)
Heroes season 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Heroes (television series)
|
| basedIn |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| child |
Matt Parkman Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Matt Parkman
Molly Walker ⓘ |
| creator | Tim Kring ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Arthur Petrelli
ⓘ
Sylar ⓘ The Company (Heroes) ⓘ
linked to:
Company (Heroes organization)
|
| fictionalUniverse | Heroes universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Genesis (Heroes episode) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
illusion casting
ⓘ
mental manipulation ⓘ mind control ⓘ mind reading ⓘ telepathy ⓘ thought projection ⓘ |
| hasRank |
detective
ⓘ
officer ⓘ |
| hasStoryArc |
becoming a Homeland Security agent
ⓘ
protecting Molly Walker ⓘ struggle with corruption of his powers ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
struggling with the ethics of mind control
ⓘ
using telepathy to solve crimes ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
homeland security agent ⓘ police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Greg Grunberg ⓘ |
| spouse | Janice Parkman ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesGenre | superhero drama ⓘ |
| worksFor |
Department of Homeland Security
ⓘ
Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ NYPD ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Police Department
|
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: Matt Parkman Description of subject: Matt Parkman is a fictional police officer with telepathic abilities in the television series "Heroes."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.