Captain James Deakins
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Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain James Deakins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9237866 — 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)
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Target entity: Captain James Deakins Context triple: [Law & Order: Criminal Intent, mainCharacter, Captain James Deakins]
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A.
Captain Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Captain Benjamin Tyreen is a proud, hot-tempered Irish-born Confederate cavalry officer who becomes Major Dundee’s bitter rival and uneasy ally in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee."
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- 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: Captain James Deakins Target entity description: Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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A.
Captain Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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B.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain Benjamin Tyreen
Captain Benjamin Tyreen is a proud, hot-tempered Irish-born Confederate cavalry officer who becomes Major Dundee’s bitter rival and uneasy ally in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee."
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Law & Order: Criminal Intent ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | crime drama ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| department | NYPD Major Case Squad ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Law & Order: Criminal Intent ⓘ |
| franchise | Law & Order ⓘ |
| genre | police procedural television series character ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | NBC ⓘ |
| occupation | police captain ⓘ |
| partOf | Law & Order: Criminal Intent main cast (early seasons) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jamey Sheridan ⓘ |
| position | Commanding officer of the Major Case Squad ⓘ |
| rank | Captain ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | senior NYPD officer overseeing major investigations ⓘ |
| supervises |
Detective Alexandra Eames
ⓘ
Detective Robert Goren ⓘ Major Case Squad detectives ⓘ
linked to:
Major Case Squad
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| universe |
Law & Order franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Law & Order
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| worksFor | Major Case Squad ⓘ |
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: Captain James Deakins Description of subject: Captain James Deakins is a senior NYPD officer who oversees the Major Case Squad on the television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.