Lt. Tragg
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Lt. Tragg is a fictional homicide detective in the Perry Mason series, known as the persistent but fair police foil to defense attorney Perry Mason.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lieutenant Arthur Tragg | 1 |
| Lt. Tragg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201189 — 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: Lt. Tragg Context triple: [Perry Mason, associatedWith, Lt. Tragg]
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A.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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B.
Commander Richter
Commander Richter is a fictional law enforcement official featured in Dan Brown’s thriller novel "Angels & Demons."
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C.
Beryl Commando
Beryl Commando is a compact carbine variant of the Polish Beryl assault rifle designed for close-quarters combat and specialized military use.
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D.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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E.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
- 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: Lt. Tragg Target entity description: Lt. Tragg is a fictional homicide detective in the Perry Mason series, known as the persistent but fair police foil to defense attorney Perry Mason.
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A.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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B.
Commander Richter
Commander Richter is a fictional law enforcement official featured in Dan Brown’s thriller novel "Angels & Demons."
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C.
Beryl Commando
Beryl Commando is a compact carbine variant of the Polish Beryl assault rifle designed for close-quarters combat and specialized military use.
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D.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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E.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ police detective ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| alignment | lawful ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Della Street
ⓘ
Paul Drake ⓘ Perry Mason ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fair
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persistent ⓘ skeptical of Perry Mason ⓘ |
| creator | Erle Stanley Gardner ⓘ |
| employer |
Los Angeles Police Department
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surface form:
Los Angeles Police Department (fictionalized)
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| firstAppearance |
Perry Mason
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surface form:
Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
|
| franchise | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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legal drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
novels
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | police foil to Perry Mason ⓘ |
| occupation |
homicide detective
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police lieutenant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ray Collins ⓘ |
| positionInStory | represents law enforcement ⓘ |
| relationshipToPerryMason |
professional adversary
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reluctant ally ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workFeaturedIn |
Perry Mason
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surface form:
Perry Mason (novel series)
Perry Mason ⓘ
surface form:
Perry Mason (television series)
|
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: Lt. Tragg Description of subject: Lt. Tragg is a fictional homicide detective in the Perry Mason series, known as the persistent but fair police foil to defense attorney Perry Mason.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lieutenant Arthur Tragg