Agent Tom Colby
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Agent Tom Colby is a fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who serves as a central protagonist in the crime drama series "The F.B.I."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Agent Tom Colby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303948 — 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: Agent Tom Colby Context triple: [The F.B.I., mainCharacter, Agent Tom Colby]
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A.
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the Chindits, the special forces long-range penetration units operating behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
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B.
John "Soap" MacTavish
John "Soap" MacTavish is a prominent Scottish special forces operative and fan-favorite playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, known for his combat skills and key role in the overarching storyline.
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C.
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is a suave, resourceful American CIA agent who teams up with a KGB counterpart to thwart international threats in the 1960s-set spy adventure "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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D.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Hank Mann
Hank Mann was a prolific silent film comedian and character actor, best known as one of the original Keystone Cops and for his numerous supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies.
- 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: Agent Tom Colby Target entity description: Agent Tom Colby is a fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who serves as a central protagonist in the crime drama series "The F.B.I."
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A.
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the Chindits, the special forces long-range penetration units operating behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
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B.
John "Soap" MacTavish
John "Soap" MacTavish is a prominent Scottish special forces operative and fan-favorite playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, known for his combat skills and key role in the overarching storyline.
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C.
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is a suave, resourceful American CIA agent who teams up with a KGB counterpart to thwart international threats in the 1960s-set spy adventure "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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D.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
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E.
Hank Mann
Hank Mann was a prolific silent film comedian and character actor, best known as one of the original Keystone Cops and for his numerous supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The F.B.I. ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| characterAlignment | lawful good ⓘ |
| characterType | law enforcement officer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Quinn Martin ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The F.B.I. television universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The F.B.I.
|
| firstAppearanceIn |
The F.B.I. (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The F.B.I.
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasGenre | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementAgency | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| network | ABC ⓘ |
| occupation | FBI special agent ⓘ |
| partOf |
The F.B.I. (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The F.B.I.
|
| portrayedBy | William Reynolds ⓘ |
| roleIn | The F.B.I. ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Agent Tom Colby Description of subject: Agent Tom Colby is a fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who serves as a central protagonist in the crime drama series "The F.B.I."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.