Eli Loker
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Eli Loker is a character on the TV series "Lie to Me," known as a researcher and expert in detecting deception who works with the Lightman Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eli Loker canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749539 — 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: Eli Loker Context triple: [Lie to Me, mainCharacter, Eli Loker]
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Nate Heller
Nate Heller is a film composer and songwriter known for his emotionally resonant scores for movies such as "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" and "Can You Ever Forgive Me?".
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C.
Tyler Volk
Tyler Volk is an American biologist, author, and professor known for his work on biosphere science, global ecology, and the evolution of complex systems.
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D.
Seth Neddermeyer
Seth Neddermeyer was an American physicist best known for pioneering the implosion method used in the plutonium bomb during the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen was an American film director, art director, and costume designer known for his stylish Hollywood productions from the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Eli Loker Target entity description: Eli Loker is a character on the TV series "Lie to Me," known as a researcher and expert in detecting deception who works with the Lightman Group.
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Nate Heller
Nate Heller is a film composer and songwriter known for his emotionally resonant scores for movies such as "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" and "Can You Ever Forgive Me?".
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C.
Tyler Volk
Tyler Volk is an American biologist, author, and professor known for his work on biosphere science, global ecology, and the evolution of complex systems.
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D.
Seth Neddermeyer
Seth Neddermeyer was an American physicist best known for pioneering the implosion method used in the plutonium bomb during the Manhattan Project.
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E.
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen was an American film director, art director, and costume designer known for his stylish Hollywood productions from the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lie to Me ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
ethics in deception detection
ⓘ
truthfulness ⓘ |
| colleague |
Dr. Cal Lightman
ⓘ
surface form:
Cal Lightman
Gillian Foster ⓘ Ria Torres ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| employer | Lightman Group ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
applied psychology
ⓘ
deception detection ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
blunt
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ socially awkward ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Dr. Cal Lightman
ⓘ
surface form:
Cal Lightman
|
| memberOf | Lightman Group team ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | radical honesty ⓘ |
| occupation |
deception expert
ⓘ
research scientist ⓘ |
| specialization |
behavioral analysis
ⓘ
lie detection research ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
body language analysis
ⓘ
facial expression analysis ⓘ microexpression analysis ⓘ |
| worksFor | Lightman Group ⓘ |
| worksOn | investigative cases involving deception ⓘ |
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: Eli Loker Description of subject: Eli Loker is a character on the TV series "Lie to Me," known as a researcher and expert in detecting deception who works with the Lightman Group.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.