Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city
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Linc Hayes is a central character on the late-1960s TV series "The Mod Squad," portrayed as a cool, streetwise young Black man who works undercover as part of a trio of youthful crime-fighters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9568148 — 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)
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Target entity: Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city Context triple: [The Mod Squad, characterRole, Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city]
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A.
Africa Hayes
Africa Hayes is known as the child of pioneering African American lyric tenor and composer Roland Hayes.
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B.
Blackman
Blackman is a surname most famously associated with English actress Honor Blackman, known for her roles in "The Avengers" and the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
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C.
Emmett Washington in The Chi
Emmett Washington in *The Chi* is a central character whose journey from carefree young father to responsible businessman and community figure anchors much of the series’ emotional and dramatic narrative.
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D.
Kwame Harris
Kwame Harris is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the NFL, primarily for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
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E.
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt is the young, wrongfully imprisoned Black artist at the heart of James Baldwin’s novel and its film adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, whose love story with Tish drives the narrative.
- 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: Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city Target entity description: Linc Hayes is a central character on the late-1960s TV series "The Mod Squad," portrayed as a cool, streetwise young Black man who works undercover as part of a trio of youthful crime-fighters.
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A.
Africa Hayes
Africa Hayes is known as the child of pioneering African American lyric tenor and composer Roland Hayes.
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B.
Blackman
Blackman is a surname most famously associated with English actress Honor Blackman, known for her roles in "The Avengers" and the James Bond film "Goldfinger."
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C.
Emmett Washington in The Chi
Emmett Washington in *The Chi* is a central character whose journey from carefree young father to responsible businessman and community figure anchors much of the series’ emotional and dramatic narrative.
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D.
Kwame Harris
Kwame Harris is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the NFL, primarily for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
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E.
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt
Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt is the young, wrongfully imprisoned Black artist at the heart of James Baldwin’s novel and its film adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, whose love story with Tish drives the narrative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
1970s
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late 1960s ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mod Squad ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cool
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ streetwise ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | ABC television network ⓘ |
| employedBy | police department (in-series) ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Black ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn |
The Mod Squad (television series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mod Squad
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hairStyle | Afro ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the early prominent Black leads in American network television ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime-fighter
ⓘ
undercover police operative ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Clarence Williams III ⓘ |
| race | African American ⓘ |
| setting | inner city background ⓘ |
| teamMemberOf | The Mod Squad trio ⓘ |
| wardrobeStyle | 1960s counterculture fashion ⓘ |
| worksUndercoverAs | youthful informant ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Julie Barnes
ⓘ
Pete Cochran ⓘ |
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: Linc Hayes is a young Black man from the inner city Description of subject: Linc Hayes is a central character on the late-1960s TV series "The Mod Squad," portrayed as a cool, streetwise young Black man who works undercover as part of a trio of youthful crime-fighters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.