Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff
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Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in *Griff* is the tough, principled police lieutenant portrayed by Lorne Greene in the 1970s crime drama television series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9519178 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff Context triple: [Lorne Greene, characterPortrayed, Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff]
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A.
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
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B.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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C.
Lieutenant Zachary Garber
Lieutenant Zachary Garber is a seasoned New York City Transit Authority police officer who leads the tense negotiation and response to a subway hijacking in the thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
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D.
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore is a fictional, surf-obsessed and war-hardened U.S. Army officer in the film "Apocalypse Now," famous for the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
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E.
Marshal Sam Mackenna
Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
- 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: Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff Target entity description: Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in *Griff* is the tough, principled police lieutenant portrayed by Lorne Greene in the 1970s crime drama television series.
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A.
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
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B.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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C.
Lieutenant Zachary Garber
Lieutenant Zachary Garber is a seasoned New York City Transit Authority police officer who leads the tense negotiation and response to a subway hijacking in the thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
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D.
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore is a fictional, surf-obsessed and war-hardened U.S. Army officer in the film "Apocalypse Now," famous for the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
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E.
Marshal Sam Mackenna
Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Griff ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
principled
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| firstAppearanceIn |
Griff
ⓘ
linked to:
Griff (Jon Connington)
|
| format | live-action television ⓘ |
| genreContext | police procedural ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| occupation |
police lieutenant
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partOf | main cast of Griff ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lorne Greene ⓘ |
| roleIn | Griff ⓘ |
| worksFor | police department ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in Griff Description of subject: Lieutenant Ben Guthrie in *Griff* is the tough, principled police lieutenant portrayed by Lorne Greene in the 1970s crime drama television series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.