Chief William Irving
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Chief William Irving is a high-ranking police official featured as a recurring character in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch universe, including the novel "The Closers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chief William Irving canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15072020 — 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: Chief William Irving Context triple: [The Closers, hasCharacter, Chief William Irving]
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A.
Chief George Earle
Chief George Earle is a senior police official in the 1993 science fiction film "Demolition Man," overseeing law enforcement in the pacifist future society where the story takes place.
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B.
Colonel F.E. Cochrane
Colonel F.E. Cochrane is the primary military antagonist in the 1983 action-thriller film "Blue Thunder," overseeing the experimental helicopter program and clashing with the protagonist.
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C.
Major William Ormsby
Major William Ormsby was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in what is now Nevada, remembered for his role in regional development and for having Ormsby County named in his honor.
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D.
Major John Howard
Major John Howard was a British Army officer renowned for leading the glider-borne coup de main operation to capture Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day landings in World War II.
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E.
Colonel James Barrett
Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Chief William Irving Target entity description: Chief William Irving is a high-ranking police official featured as a recurring character in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch universe, including the novel "The Closers."
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A.
Chief George Earle
Chief George Earle is a senior police official in the 1993 science fiction film "Demolition Man," overseeing law enforcement in the pacifist future society where the story takes place.
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B.
Colonel F.E. Cochrane
Colonel F.E. Cochrane is the primary military antagonist in the 1983 action-thriller film "Blue Thunder," overseeing the experimental helicopter program and clashing with the protagonist.
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C.
Major William Ormsby
Major William Ormsby was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in what is now Nevada, remembered for his role in regional development and for having Ormsby County named in his honor.
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D.
Major John Howard
Major John Howard was a British Army officer renowned for leading the glider-borne coup de main operation to capture Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day landings in World War II.
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E.
Colonel James Barrett
Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.