Frank Bullitt
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Frank Bullitt is a tough, no-nonsense San Francisco police lieutenant famously portrayed by Steve McQueen in the 1968 action-thriller film "Bullitt."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Bullitt canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2273986 — 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: Frank Bullitt Context triple: [Bullitt, character, Frank Bullitt]
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A.
Jack Crawford
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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B.
Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett was an American film actor best known for his long-running role as the Durango Kid in B-Western movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Rick Dalton
Rick Dalton is a fictional fading television actor in late-1960s Hollywood, featured as one of the main characters in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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D.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
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E.
William Cage
William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public relations officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
- 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: Frank Bullitt Target entity description: Frank Bullitt is a tough, no-nonsense San Francisco police lieutenant famously portrayed by Steve McQueen in the 1968 action-thriller film "Bullitt."
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A.
Jack Crawford
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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B.
Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett was an American film actor best known for his long-running role as the Durango Kid in B-Western movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Rick Dalton
Rick Dalton is a fictional fading television actor in late-1960s Hollywood, featured as one of the main characters in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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D.
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday is the no-nonsense, methodical detective protagonist of the classic police procedural series "Dragnet," known for his deadpan delivery and focus on factual investigation.
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E.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a classic American comic-strip detective character known for his distinctive yellow trench coat, two-way wrist radio, and crime-fighting adventures against colorful villains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bullitt ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
District Attorney's office
ⓘ
San Francisco General Hospital ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel "Mute Witness" ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dedicated
ⓘ
no-nonsense ⓘ stoic ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
organized crime
ⓘ
politically ambitious district attorney ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor |
film "Bullitt"
ⓘ
linked to:
Bullitt
|
| createdInPeriod | 1960s American cinema ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
iconic cinematic cop archetype
ⓘ
influential car-chase sequences in film ⓘ |
| employer | San Francisco Police Department ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Peter Yates ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfWork | 1968 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
action film
ⓘ
crime thriller ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Cathy ⓘ |
| hasNationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| involvedIn | protection of a mob witness ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loveInterestPortrayedBy | Jacqueline Bisset ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | car chase in San Francisco ⓘ |
| notableScene |
airport confrontation
ⓘ
apartment ambush ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police lieutenant ⓘ |
| policeRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| policeUnit | Homicide division ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
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| screenWriterOfWork |
Alan R. Trustman
ⓘ
Harry Kleiner ⓘ |
| setIn | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| settingTime | late 1960s ⓘ |
| vehicleDriven |
Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford Mustang
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| weaponUsed | service revolver ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1968 ⓘ |
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: Frank Bullitt Description of subject: Frank Bullitt is a tough, no-nonsense San Francisco police lieutenant famously portrayed by Steve McQueen in the 1968 action-thriller film "Bullitt."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.