Detective David Mills
E405575
Detective David Mills is a young, impulsive homicide detective in the film "Se7en" who partners with a seasoned veteran to hunt a serial killer inspired by the seven deadly sins.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective David Mills canonical | 5 |
| Detective William Somerset | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4017784 — 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: Detective David Mills Context triple: [Se7en, mainCharacter, Detective David Mills]
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A.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Inspector Steve Keller
Inspector Steve Keller is a fictional young homicide detective and partner to veteran cop Mike Stone in the 1970s American crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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E.
Detective Riley
Detective Riley is a supporting police investigator character in the 2016 psychological thriller film "The Girl on the Train," involved in unraveling the central mystery.
- 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: Detective David Mills Target entity description: Detective David Mills is a young, impulsive homicide detective in the film "Se7en" who partners with a seasoned veteran to hunt a serial killer inspired by the seven deadly sins.
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A.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Inspector Steve Keller
Inspector Steve Keller is a fictional young homicide detective and partner to veteran cop Mike Stone in the 1970s American crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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E.
Detective Riley
Detective Riley is a supporting police investigator character in the 2016 psychological thriller film "The Girl on the Train," involved in unraveling the central mystery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| antagonist | John Doe ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Se7en
ⓘ
Seven ⓘ |
| associatedConcept | seven deadly sins ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
envy murder case
ⓘ
gluttony murder case ⓘ greed murder case ⓘ lust murder case ⓘ pride murder case ⓘ sloth murder case ⓘ wrath murder case ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| directorOfWork | David Fincher ⓘ |
| employer |
Metropolitan Police Department (Se7en)
ⓘ
linked to:
Metropolitan Police Department
|
| familyName | Mills ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
crime thriller
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristicArc |
loss of idealism
ⓘ
moral disillusionment ⓘ |
| investigates | serial murders based on the seven deadly sins ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mentor | Detective William Somerset ⓘ |
| movesTo | the city where Somerset works ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableScene | final confrontation in the desert with John Doe and Somerset ⓘ |
| occupation | homicide detective ⓘ |
| partner | Detective William Somerset ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
emotional
ⓘ
hot-headed ⓘ idealistic ⓘ impulsive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brad Pitt ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Andrew Kevin Walker ⓘ |
| spouse | Tracy Mills ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
an unnamed large American city ⓘ |
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: Detective David Mills Description of subject: Detective David Mills is a young, impulsive homicide detective in the film "Se7en" who partners with a seasoned veteran to hunt a serial killer inspired by the seven deadly sins.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Detective David Mills
linked to: Detective David Mills
subject linked to:
John Doe in Se7en
subject linked to:
John Doe in Se7en
subject linked to:
John Doe