Furillo
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Furillo is the surname of Captain Frank Furillo, the central police precinct commander in the television drama "Hill Street Blues."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Furillo canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11343565 — 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: Furillo Context triple: [Captain Frank Furillo, familyName, Furillo]
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A.
Pudu
Pudu is a genus of the world’s smallest deer, native to the temperate rainforests of South America.
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B.
Pongo
Pongo is the nickname of Pongo Twistleton, a comic character from P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, particularly known for his misadventures with his Uncle Fred.
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C.
Pongo
Pongo is the intelligent and devoted Dalmatian dog who serves as the central canine protagonist in Disney’s "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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D.
Pongo
Pongo is the genus of great apes commonly known as orangutans, native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
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E.
Pongo
Pongo is a dialect of the Duala language spoken by the Duala people of Cameroon.
- 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: Furillo Target entity description: Furillo is the surname of Captain Frank Furillo, the central police precinct commander in the television drama "Hill Street Blues."
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A.
Pudu
Pudu is a genus of the world’s smallest deer, native to the temperate rainforests of South America.
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B.
Pongo
Pongo is the nickname of Pongo Twistleton, a comic character from P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, particularly known for his misadventures with his Uncle Fred.
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C.
Pongo
Pongo is the intelligent and devoted Dalmatian dog who serves as the central canine protagonist in Disney’s "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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D.
Pongo
Pongo is the genus of great apes commonly known as orangutans, native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
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E.
Pongo
Pongo is a dialect of the Duala language spoken by the Duala people of Cameroon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
surname ⓘ television character ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisodeCount | multiple episodes of Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
Michael Kozoll
ⓘ
Steven Bochco ⓘ |
| employer |
Hill Street police precinct
ⓘ
linked to:
Hill Street police station
|
| familyName | Furillo ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
Hill Street Blues season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Hill Street Blues
|
| genre | police procedural ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
police procedural
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Furillo ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusIn | Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | NBC ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
calm leadership style
ⓘ
complex personal and professional life ⓘ focus on community-oriented policing ⓘ |
| occupation |
police captain
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Daniel J. Travanti ⓘ |
| positionHeld | police precinct commander ⓘ |
| roleIn | Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| spouse | Joyce Davenport ⓘ |
| usedBy | Frank Furillo ⓘ |
| worksInFictionalLocation | unnamed American 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: Furillo Description of subject: Furillo is the surname of Captain Frank Furillo, the central police precinct commander in the television drama "Hill Street Blues."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.