Inspector Lestrade
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Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for his dogged police work and frequent collaboration with Holmes despite often being outshone by the detective’s brilliance.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963624 — 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: Inspector Lestrade Context triple: [Sherlock, featuresCharacter, Inspector Lestrade]
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Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is the loyal friend, assistant, and biographer of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories.
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Simon Spoor
Simon Spoor was a Dutch general who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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Fabian of the Yard
Fabian of the Yard is a 1950s British television crime drama series following a Scotland Yard detective as he investigates real-life-inspired cases.
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Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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E.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
- 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: Inspector Lestrade Target entity description: Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for his dogged police work and frequent collaboration with Holmes despite often being outshone by the detective’s brilliance.
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A.
Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is the loyal friend, assistant, and biographer of Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories.
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B.
Simon Spoor
Simon Spoor was a Dutch general who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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C.
Fabian of the Yard
Fabian of the Yard is a 1950s British television crime drama series following a Scotland Yard detective as he investigates real-life-inspired cases.
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D.
Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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E.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Inspector Lestrade Description of subject: Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, known for his dogged police work and frequent collaboration with Holmes despite often being outshone by the detective’s brilliance.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Edward Maurice Charles Marsan
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Inspector Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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later adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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