Ted Case
E511847
Ted Case is a fictional detective who serves as one of the central investigators in the British television crime drama series "New Tricks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Case canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317776 — 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: Ted Case Context triple: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Ted Case]
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A.
John Case
John Case is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as literature, academia, or public life.
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B.
Dave Case
Dave Case is a musician best known as a member of the rock band Helmet.
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C.
Steve Hurley
Steve Hurley is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a pioneering figure in Chicago house music.
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D.
Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
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E.
John Ritchie
John Ritchie was the father of John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
- 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: Ted Case Target entity description: Ted Case is a fictional detective who serves as one of the central investigators in the British television crime drama series "New Tricks."
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A.
John Case
John Case is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as literature, academia, or public life.
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B.
Dave Case
Dave Case is a musician best known as a member of the rock band Helmet.
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C.
Steve Hurley
Steve Hurley is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a pioneering figure in Chicago house music.
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D.
Martin Hurson
Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
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E.
John Ritchie
John Ritchie was the father of John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Tricks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama character ⓘ |
| hasName | Ted Case ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central investigator ⓘ |
| occupation | detective ⓘ |
| partOfCastType | main cast ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | British television crime drama ⓘ |
| roleIn | New Tricks ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | British television series ⓘ |
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: Ted Case Description of subject: Ted Case is a fictional detective who serves as one of the central investigators in the British television crime drama series "New Tricks."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.