Jonathan Creek
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Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series centered on a creative consultant to a magician who uses his expertise in illusions and lateral thinking to solve seemingly impossible crimes.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Creek canonical | 31 |
| Jonathan Creek universe | 2 |
| Jonathan Creek franchise | 1 |
| Jonathan Creek in Jonathan Creek | 1 |
| Jonathan Creek series 1 | 1 |
| magician-turned-sleuth Jonathan Creek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386369 — 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: Jonathan Creek Context triple: [Paul McGann, playedInTelevisionSeries, Jonathan Creek]
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Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter was a British crime writer best known as the creator of the Inspector Morse detective novels, which inspired a popular television series.
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Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
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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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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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E.
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a long-running British detective drama series set in the fictional English county of Midsomer, known for its picturesque villages and surprisingly high murder rate.
- 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: Jonathan Creek Target entity description: Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series centered on a creative consultant to a magician who uses his expertise in illusions and lateral thinking to solve seemingly impossible crimes.
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A.
Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter was a British crime writer best known as the creator of the Inspector Morse detective novels, which inspired a popular television series.
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B.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a long-running British detective drama series set in the fictional English county of Midsomer, known for its picturesque villages and surprisingly high murder rate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Jonathan Creek Description of subject: Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series centered on a creative consultant to a magician who uses his expertise in illusions and lateral thinking to solve seemingly impossible crimes.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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