Jack Crawford
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Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Crawford canonical | 17 |
| Jack Crawford (professional mentor) | 1 |
| Jack Crawford in Manhunter | 1 |
| Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105143 — 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: Jack Crawford Context triple: [The Silence of the Lambs, character, Jack Crawford]
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A.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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B.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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C.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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D.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
- 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: Jack Crawford Target entity description: Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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A.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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B.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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C.
Eddie Sawyer
Eddie Sawyer was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" to the 1950 National League pennant.
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D.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Behavioral Science Unit ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hannibal
ⓘ
Hannibal (2001 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal (film)
Hannibal (TV series) ⓘ Hannibal Rising (mentioned) ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal Rising
Manhunter (1986 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Manhunter (film)
Red Dragon ⓘ Red Dragon (2002 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
|
| appearsInFranchise |
Hannibal Lecter series
ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal Lecter novels
|
| basedOnWork |
Hannibal
ⓘ
Red Dragon ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
|
| characterType | supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| colleagueOf |
Hannibal Lecter
ⓘ
Will Graham ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Hannibal Lecter universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series
|
| firstAppearance | Red Dragon ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Hannibal (2001 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal (film)
Hannibal (TV series) ⓘ Manhunter (1986 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Manhunter (film)
Red Dragon (2002 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Red Dragon
The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs
|
| hasSpouse | Bella Crawford ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Clarice Starling ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
FBI superior to Clarice Starling
ⓘ
head of the investigation into serial killers ⓘ recruiter of Clarice Starling for the Lecter interviews ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI agent
ⓘ
law enforcement officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Dennis Farina
ⓘ
Harvey Keitel ⓘ Laurence Fishburne ⓘ Scott Glenn ⓘ |
| position | head of the Behavioral Science Unit ⓘ |
| specialization |
behavioral science
ⓘ
criminal profiling ⓘ |
| workLocation | Quantico, Virginia ⓘ |
| worksOn | serial killer investigations ⓘ |
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: Jack Crawford Description of subject: Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jack Crawford
linked to: Jack Crawford
subject linked to:
television series Hannibal
subject linked to:
television series Hannibal
subject linked to:
Hannibal (TV series) season 2
subject linked to:
Jimmy Price on Hannibal
subject linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series character Barney Matthews
linked to: Jack Crawford