Jim Brass
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Jim Brass is a seasoned, no-nonsense homicide detective and later captain in the Las Vegas Police Department on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Brass canonical | 16 |
| James Brass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1746174 — 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 Brass Context triple: [CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, mainCharacter, Jim Brass]
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A.
Bill Denbrough
Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
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B.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
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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E.
Tom Rothrock
Tom Rothrock is an American record producer and musician known for his work with artists such as James Blunt, Beck, and Elliott Smith.
- 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 Brass Target entity description: Jim Brass is a seasoned, no-nonsense homicide detective and later captain in the Las Vegas Police Department on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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A.
Bill Denbrough
Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
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B.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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C.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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D.
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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E.
Tom Rothrock
Tom Rothrock is an American record producer and musician known for his work with artists such as James Blunt, Beck, and Elliott Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ⓘ |
| createdFor | CBS ⓘ |
| department | LVPD Homicide ⓘ |
| employer | Las Vegas Police Department ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | CSI franchise ⓘ |
| franchiseEntry | original CSI series ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasRank |
Captain
ⓘ
Detective ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | police contact for crime scene investigators ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
homicide detective
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police captain ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
no-nonsense
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seasoned ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Guilfoyle ⓘ |
| position |
LVPD Captain
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former LVPD Homicide Detective ⓘ |
| role |
law enforcement liaison to CSI team
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supporting character ⓘ |
| setting | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesDebut |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 1
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linked to:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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| worksWith |
Catherine Willows
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Gil Grissom ⓘ Greg Sanders ⓘ Nick Stokes ⓘ Sara Sidle ⓘ Warrick Brown ⓘ |
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 Brass Description of subject: Jim Brass is a seasoned, no-nonsense homicide detective and later captain in the Las Vegas Police Department on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Cool Change”
subject linked to:
Nick Stokes – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
subject linked to:
forensic investigator Greg Sanders
linked to: Jim Brass