Frank Tripp
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Frank Tripp is a tough, no-nonsense Miami-Dade homicide detective on the television series CSI: Miami, known for his dry wit and steady support of the CSI team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Tripp canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8382080 — 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: Frank Tripp Context triple: [CSI: Miami, mainCharacter, Frank Tripp]
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A.
Leo Farley
Leo Farley is a central character in the crime drama series "Under Suspicion," involved in the show's intricate investigations and moral ambiguities.
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B.
Frank Parrish
Frank Parrish is a fictional character portrayed by actor Tim Reid, likely in a film or television production.
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C.
Philip Garris
Philip Garris is an American artist best known for his iconic fantasy- and mythology-inspired album cover artwork, particularly for the Grateful Dead.
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D.
Franklin Keeler
Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
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E.
Jack Holbrook
Jack Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake associated with the surname Holbrook.
- 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: Frank Tripp Target entity description: Frank Tripp is a tough, no-nonsense Miami-Dade homicide detective on the television series CSI: Miami, known for his dry wit and steady support of the CSI team.
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A.
Leo Farley
Leo Farley is a central character in the crime drama series "Under Suspicion," involved in the show's intricate investigations and moral ambiguities.
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B.
Frank Parrish
Frank Parrish is a fictional character portrayed by actor Tim Reid, likely in a film or television production.
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C.
Philip Garris
Philip Garris is an American artist best known for his iconic fantasy- and mythology-inspired album cover artwork, particularly for the Grateful Dead.
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D.
Franklin Keeler
Franklin Keeler was the founder of the Times Union newspaper.
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E.
Jack Holbrook
Jack Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake associated with the surname Holbrook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | CSI: Miami ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Miami-Dade crime lab
ⓘ
linked to:
Miami-Dade Crime Lab (fictional)
|
| basedIn | Miami-Dade County ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Miami-Dade Police Department ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | CSI franchise ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceSeries | CSI: Miami ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama television series character ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
loyal
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ supportive of forensic investigators ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
dry wit
ⓘ
no-nonsense ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| hasWorkingStyle |
by-the-book
ⓘ
direct ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
police liaison to CSI team
ⓘ
recurring character ⓘ |
| occupation | homicide detective ⓘ |
| policeRank | detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Rex Linn ⓘ |
| spokenLanguage | English ⓘ |
| supports |
CSI team
ⓘ
Calleigh Duquesne ⓘ Eric Delko ⓘ Horatio Caine ⓘ Ryan Wolfe ⓘ |
| workLocation | Miami ⓘ |
| worksOn | homicide cases ⓘ |
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: Frank Tripp Description of subject: Frank Tripp is a tough, no-nonsense Miami-Dade homicide detective on the television series CSI: Miami, known for his dry wit and steady support of the CSI team.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.