Commissioner Bele
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Commissioner Bele is a character from the original Star Trek series, known as a half-black, half-white alien whose racial prejudice is central to the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Commissioner Bele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11383884 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Commissioner Bele Context triple: [Frank Gorshin, portrayedCharacter, Commissioner Bele]
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A.
Commissioner Nyari
Commissioner Nyari is a character in the 2018 television adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, serving as part of the authoritarian regime that censors and controls information.
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B.
Commissioner Gruer
Commissioner Gruer is a senior law enforcement official, typically portrayed as a high-ranking police or security commissioner in a fictional or governmental context.
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C.
Commissioner Julius Enderby
Commissioner Julius Enderby is a high-ranking police official in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, serving as detective Elijah Baley’s bureaucratic and often politically cautious superior.
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D.
Commissioner Dolan
Commissioner Dolan is a high-ranking police official in the Spirit comic series who frequently collaborates with the masked crimefighter Denny Colt.
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E.
Councillor Krespel
"Councillor Krespel" is a Gothic-tinged Romantic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann that explores obsession, music, and madness through the eccentric figure of a violin-obsessed jurist.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commissioner Bele Target entity description: Commissioner Bele is a character from the original Star Trek series, known as a half-black, half-white alien whose racial prejudice is central to the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."
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A.
Commissioner Nyari
Commissioner Nyari is a character in the 2018 television adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, serving as part of the authoritarian regime that censors and controls information.
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B.
Commissioner Gruer
Commissioner Gruer is a senior law enforcement official, typically portrayed as a high-ranking police or security commissioner in a fictional or governmental context.
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C.
Commissioner Julius Enderby
Commissioner Julius Enderby is a high-ranking police official in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, serving as detective Elijah Baley’s bureaucratic and often politically cautious superior.
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D.
Commissioner Dolan
Commissioner Dolan is a high-ranking police official in the Spirit comic series who frequently collaborates with the masked crimefighter Denny Colt.
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E.
Councillor Krespel
"Councillor Krespel" is a Gothic-tinged Romantic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann that explores obsession, music, and madness through the eccentric figure of a violin-obsessed jurist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cheron government ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode | Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ⓘ |
| attemptsTo | seize control of the USS Enterprise ⓘ |
| believesIn | racial superiority of Cheronians with black on the right side ⓘ |
| boardsShip | USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
James T. Kirk
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Lokai ⓘ |
| costumeFeature |
distinctive facial makeup emphasizing bicolored skin
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tight-fitting uniform ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gene Roddenberry ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature |
asymmetrical bicolored face and body
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half-black, half-white skin coloration ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisodeNumber | episode 15 of Star Trek: The Original Series season 3 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceSeriesSeason | Star Trek: The Original Series season 3 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek ⓘ |
| goal |
capture Lokai
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return Lokai to Cheron for punishment ⓘ |
| homeworld | Cheron ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
James T. Kirk
ⓘ
Leonard McCoy ⓘ Scotty ⓘ Spock ⓘ Sulu ⓘ Uhura ⓘ
linked to:
Nyota Uhura
|
| language | speaks English (Federation Standard) ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
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symbol of racial prejudice ⓘ |
| occupation | commissioner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Frank Gorshin ⓘ |
| power |
ability to control the Enterprise’s course
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ability to immobilize the Enterprise ⓘ |
| prejudiceBasedOn | skin color orientation ⓘ |
| pursues | Lokai ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Lokai ⓘ |
| series | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| skinColorPattern | black on the right side of his body and white on the left side ⓘ |
| species | Cheronian ⓘ |
| themeRepresentation |
allegory of civil rights era racial conflict
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allegory of racism ⓘ |
| universe | Prime Timeline (Star Trek) ⓘ |
| viewsLokaiAs |
criminal
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fugitive ⓘ |
| writtenForEpisodeBy |
Gene L. Coon
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Oliver Crawford ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Commissioner Bele Description of subject: Commissioner Bele is a character from the original Star Trek series, known as a half-black, half-white alien whose racial prejudice is central to the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."
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