Jim Hopper
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Jim Hopper is a gruff but deeply caring small-town police chief who becomes a central protector of the children and supernatural secrets in the series "Stranger Things."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Hopper canonical | 47 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956723 — 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: Jim Hopper Context triple: [Stranger Things, mainCharacter, Jim Hopper]
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A.
Opie Winston
Opie Winston is a central member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and Jax Teller’s loyal best friend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Daryl Dixon (character)
Daryl Dixon is a skilled, crossbow-wielding survivor and fan-favorite character from the television series "The Walking Dead."
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C.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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D.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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E.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
- 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: Jim Hopper Target entity description: Jim Hopper is a gruff but deeply caring small-town police chief who becomes a central protector of the children and supernatural secrets in the series "Stranger Things."
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A.
Opie Winston
Opie Winston is a central member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and Jax Teller’s loyal best friend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Daryl Dixon (character)
Daryl Dixon is a skilled, crossbow-wielding survivor and fan-favorite character from the television series "The Walking Dead."
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C.
James Crabe
James Crabe was an American cinematographer best known for his work on influential films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the original Rocky.
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D.
Hudson Fysh
Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman best known as a co-founder and long-serving leader of Qantas, helping to establish it as a major international airline.
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E.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| adoptiveParentOf | Eleven ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stranger Things ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dustin Henderson
ⓘ
Eleven ⓘ Joyce Byers ⓘ Lucas Sinclair ⓘ Mike Wheeler ⓘ Will Byers ⓘ |
| backstoryElement |
Vietnam War veteran
ⓘ
former New York City police officer ⓘ lost his biological daughter Sara to cancer ⓘ |
| caretakerOf | Eleven at his cabin ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfSeries |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
The Duffer Brothers
ⓘ
linked to:
Duffer Brothers
|
| employer | Hawkins Police Department ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Demogorgon
ⓘ
Mind Flayer ⓘ Russian operatives in Hawkins ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopper ⓘ |
| fictionalState | Indiana ⓘ |
| fictionalTown | Hawkins ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Stranger Things Season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Stranger Things
|
| fullName | James Hopper ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction horror
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasAddictionHistory | alcohol ⓘ |
| laterStatus | imprisoned in a Russian labor camp ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | Netflix ⓘ |
| notableAction |
helps cover up supernatural events in Hawkins
ⓘ
helps rescue Will Byers from the Upside Down ⓘ sacrifices himself to destroy the Russian gate machine at Starcourt Mall ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief of police
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
caring
ⓘ
gruff ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Harbour ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief of police of Hawkins Police Department ⓘ |
| residence | cabin in the woods near Hawkins ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
central protector of children in Hawkins
ⓘ
protector of Hawkins from supernatural threats ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| setting | 1980s ⓘ |
| wardrobe |
Hawkins Police Department uniform
ⓘ
tan sheriff hat ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | revolver ⓘ |
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: Jim Hopper Description of subject: Jim Hopper is a gruff but deeply caring small-town police chief who becomes a central protector of the children and supernatural secrets in the series "Stranger Things."
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things
subject linked to:
Hawkins National Laboratory (as an adversary)
subject linked to:
Dr. Sam Owens in Stranger Things
subject linked to:
battle of Starcourt Mall