Meldrick Lewis
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Meldrick Lewis is a central detective character on the television crime drama "Homicide: Life on the Street," known for his streetwise demeanor and sharp investigative instincts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meldrick Lewis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11171065 — 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: Meldrick Lewis Context triple: [Homicide: Life on the Street, hasMainCharacter, Meldrick Lewis]
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A.
Mehcad Brooks
Mehcad Brooks is an American actor and former fashion model known for roles in television series like "Desperate Housewives," "True Blood," and "Supergirl," as well as films such as "Just Wright."
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B.
Tyree Pittman
Tyree Pittman, better known as Young Chop, is an American record producer and rapper recognized for shaping the sound of Chicago drill music.
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C.
Michele Bullock
Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
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D.
Cedric Yarbrough
Cedric Yarbrough is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on the TV series "Reno 911!" and for voicing characters in animated shows such as "The Boondocks."
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E.
Charles Duncan O’Neal
Charles Duncan O’Neal was a Barbadian physician, social reformer, and political leader celebrated for championing workers’ rights and democratic reforms in early 20th-century Barbados.
- 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: Meldrick Lewis Target entity description: Meldrick Lewis is a central detective character on the television crime drama "Homicide: Life on the Street," known for his streetwise demeanor and sharp investigative instincts.
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A.
Mehcad Brooks
Mehcad Brooks is an American actor and former fashion model known for roles in television series like "Desperate Housewives," "True Blood," and "Supergirl," as well as films such as "Just Wright."
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B.
Tyree Pittman
Tyree Pittman, better known as Young Chop, is an American record producer and rapper recognized for shaping the sound of Chicago drill music.
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C.
Michele Bullock
Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
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D.
Cedric Yarbrough
Cedric Yarbrough is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on the TV series "Reno 911!" and for voicing characters in animated shows such as "The Boondocks."
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E.
Charles Duncan O’Neal
Charles Duncan O’Neal was a Barbadian physician, social reformer, and political leader celebrated for championing workers’ rights and democratic reforms in early 20th-century Barbados.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Homicide: Life on the Street
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homicide: The Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colleague |
Al Giardello
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Pembleton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Munch NERFINISHED ⓘ Kay Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Laura Ballard NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Bolander NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Bayliss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Paul Attanasio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Baltimore Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Homicide: Life on the Street, season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasDemeanor | streetwise ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasRank | detective ⓘ |
| hasStoryRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
partnership and loyalty among detectives
ⓘ
police procedural work ⓘ urban crime investigation ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
loyal to partners
ⓘ
sharp investigative instincts ⓘ wry sense of humor ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterIn | Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | Homicide universe ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| occupation |
homicide detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partner |
Mike Kellerman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rene Sheppard NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Crosetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Clark Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit squad room NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| team | Baltimore Homicide Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Baltimore 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: Meldrick Lewis Description of subject: Meldrick Lewis is a central detective character on the television crime drama "Homicide: Life on the Street," known for his streetwise demeanor and sharp investigative instincts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.