Bill Gillespie

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Bill Gillespie is the white, small-town Mississippi police chief whose uneasy but evolving partnership with Black detective Virgil Tibbs drives the racial and social tensions at the heart of "In the Heat of the Night."

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Surface form	As subject	As object
Chief Bill Gillespie	0	1

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

In the Heat of the Night → character → Bill Gillespie →

Carroll O’Connor → role → Bill Gillespie →

this entity surface form: Chief Bill Gillespie