Dan Stark
E151251
Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Stark canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322051 — 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: Dan Stark Context triple: [Bradley Whitford, characterPortrayed, Dan Stark]
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A.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is a television and film producer best known for his work on science-themed documentary series such as "Cosmos: Possible Worlds."
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D.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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E.
Van Brunt
Van Brunt is the surname of Brom Bones, the boisterous rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
- 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: Dan Stark Target entity description: Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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A.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is a television and film producer best known for his work on science-themed documentary series such as "Cosmos: Possible Worlds."
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D.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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E.
Van Brunt
Van Brunt is the surname of Brom Bones, the boisterous rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Good Guys ⓘ |
| basedIn | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
old-school policing style
ⓘ
rule-bending ⓘ veteran cop ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Matt Nix ⓘ |
| employer | Dallas Police Department ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Good Guys, Season 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryElement | once a celebrated hero cop ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle | buddy-cop comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | Fox ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partner | Jack Bailey ⓘ |
| partOf | main cast of The Good Guys ⓘ |
| policeRank | detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bradley Whitford ⓘ |
| usesMethod | unorthodox investigative techniques ⓘ |
| workLocation | Dallas Police Department ⓘ |
| yearOfSeriesDebut | 2010 ⓘ |
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: Dan Stark Description of subject: Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.