Sandra Pullman
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Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sandra Pullman canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317770 — 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: Sandra Pullman Context triple: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Sandra Pullman]
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A.
Nancy Springer
Nancy Springer is an American author best known for her mystery novels, including the Enola Holmes series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister as a teenage detective.
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B.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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C.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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D.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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E.
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator best known for her "How to Train Your Dragon" book series, which inspired the popular animated film franchise.
- 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: Sandra Pullman Target entity description: Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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A.
Nancy Springer
Nancy Springer is an American author best known for her mystery novels, including the Enola Holmes series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister as a teenage detective.
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B.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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C.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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D.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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E.
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator best known for her "How to Train Your Dragon" book series, which inspired the popular animated film franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Tricks ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama television series
ⓘ
police procedural television series ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritative
ⓘ
by-the-book ⓘ dedicated ⓘ determined ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
Metropolitan Police
ⓘ
linked to:
Metropolitan Police Service
|
| familyName | Pullman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
New Tricks universe
ⓘ
linked to:
New Tricks
|
| firstAppearanceWork | New Tricks series 1 ⓘ |
| givenName | Sandra ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Brian Lane
ⓘ
Gerry Standing ⓘ Jack Halford ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leads | team of retired police officers ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
main character
ⓘ
team leader ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Amanda Redman ⓘ |
| position | head of Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad ⓘ |
| specializesIn | cold case investigations ⓘ |
| teamName | UCOS ⓘ |
| televisionNetworkOfAppearance | BBC One ⓘ |
| worksIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Sandra Pullman Description of subject: Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.