Dan Fielding
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Dan Fielding is a lecherous yet sharp-tongued prosecutor from the sitcom "Night Court," best known for his womanizing ways and sarcastic wit.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Fielding canonical | 5 |
| Dan Fielding is a public defender | 1 |
| Dan Fielding was a prosecutor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4371539 — 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: Dan Fielding Context triple: [John Larroquette, characterPortrayed, Dan Fielding]
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A.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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B.
Derek Twigg
Derek Twigg is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament who has held several junior ministerial roles in UK government.
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C.
Roger Davies
Roger Davies is an actor known for his role in the science fiction horror film "The Cloverfield Paradox."
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D.
David Blunt
David Blunt is a British football executive best known for serving as chairman of Doncaster Rovers Football Club.
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E.
Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton is a British actor best known for playing Simon Templar in the late-1980s television films of "The Saint."
- 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: Dan Fielding Target entity description: Dan Fielding is a lecherous yet sharp-tongued prosecutor from the sitcom "Night Court," best known for his womanizing ways and sarcastic wit.
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A.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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B.
Derek Twigg
Derek Twigg is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament who has held several junior ministerial roles in UK government.
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C.
Roger Davies
Roger Davies is an actor known for his role in the science fiction horror film "The Cloverfield Paradox."
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D.
David Blunt
David Blunt is a British football executive best known for serving as chairman of Doncaster Rovers Football Club.
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E.
Simon Dutton
Simon Dutton is a British actor best known for playing Simon Templar in the late-1980s television films of "The Saint."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Night Court ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Bull Shannon
ⓘ
Christine Sullivan ⓘ Harry Stone ⓘ Roz Russell ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
lecherous
ⓘ
sarcastic ⓘ sharp-tongued ⓘ womanizer ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Night Court ⓘ |
| fictionalProfession | criminal prosecutor ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
Night Court season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Night Court
|
| genreOfWork | sitcom ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
sarcasm
ⓘ
sexual innuendo ⓘ |
| knownFor |
sarcastic wit
ⓘ
womanizing ways ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic relief ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant district attorney
ⓘ
prosecutor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Larroquette ⓘ |
| roleInSeries | main character ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Manhattan Municipal Court
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Criminal Court
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| worksInFictionalLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| worksUnderCharacter | Judge Harry Stone ⓘ |
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: Dan Fielding Description of subject: Dan Fielding is a lecherous yet sharp-tongued prosecutor from the sitcom "Night Court," best known for his womanizing ways and sarcastic wit.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.