Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
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Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Leland Stottlemeyer canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342799 — 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: Captain Leland Stottlemeyer Context triple: [Monk, hasCharacter, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer]
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A.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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Captain Ed Mercer
Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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D.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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E.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
- 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: Captain Leland Stottlemeyer Target entity description: Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
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A.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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C.
Captain Ed Mercer
Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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D.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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E.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Captain Leland Stottlemeyer Description of subject: Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.