Nathan Ford
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Nathan Ford is the brilliant but morally conflicted former insurance investigator who leads a team of thieves and con artists in the television series "Leverage."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan Ford canonical | 15 |
| Nate Ford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T815240 — 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: Nathan Ford Context triple: [Leverage, mainCharacter, Nathan Ford]
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A.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Sid Sawyer
Sid Sawyer is Tom Sawyer’s well-behaved but tattling half-brother in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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C.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
- 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: Nathan Ford Target entity description: Nathan Ford is the brilliant but morally conflicted former insurance investigator who leads a team of thieves and con artists in the television series "Leverage."
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A.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Sid Sawyer
Sid Sawyer is Tom Sawyer’s well-behaved but tattling half-brother in Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
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C.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alignment | vigilante ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nate Ford
ⓘ
linked to:
Nathan Ford
|
| appearsIn |
Leverage
ⓘ
Leverage: Redemption ⓘ
linked to:
Leverage
|
| associatedWith |
Alec Hardison
ⓘ
Eliot Spencer ⓘ Parker ⓘ Sophie Devereaux ⓘ |
| basedOn | archetype of the mastermind thief ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
alcoholism
ⓘ
guilt over son’s death ⓘ strong sense of justice ⓘ |
| child | Sam Ford ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
corrupt corporations
ⓘ
organized crime figures ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Chris Downey
ⓘ
John Rogers ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Leverage universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Leverage
|
| firstAppearance |
Leverage Season 1 Episode 1 "The Nigerian Job"
ⓘ
linked to:
Leverage
|
| formerEmployer | IYS Insurance ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
heist fiction ⓘ |
| leads | Leverage crew ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| morality | morally conflicted ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | planner of each episode’s con ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | TNT ⓘ |
| notableFor | brilliant strategic thinking ⓘ |
| occupation |
con artist
ⓘ
insurance investigator ⓘ thief ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Timothy Hutton ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| primarySkill |
manipulation of social situations
ⓘ
reading people ⓘ tactical planning ⓘ |
| role | mastermind ⓘ |
| spouse | Maggie Collins ⓘ |
| statusInLeverageRedemption | absent but referenced ⓘ |
| teamMemberOf |
Leverage crew
ⓘ
linked to:
Leverage
|
| teamRole | leader of a team of thieves and con artists ⓘ |
| theme | redemption arc ⓘ |
| usesMethod | elaborate cons against corrupt individuals and organizations ⓘ |
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: Nathan Ford Description of subject: Nathan Ford is the brilliant but morally conflicted former insurance investigator who leads a team of thieves and con artists in the television series "Leverage."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nathan Ford
subject linked to:
Eliot Spencer in Leverage
subject linked to:
Eliot Spencer in Leverage