Michael Scofield
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Michael Scofield is the brilliant structural engineer and central protagonist of the TV series "Prison Break," known for orchestrating elaborate prison escapes to save his brother and others.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Scofield canonical | 27 |
| Michael Scofield Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3284975 — 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: Michael Scofield Context triple: [Lincoln Burrows, hasSibling, Michael Scofield]
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A.
Winston Bishop
Winston Bishop is a quirky, big-hearted former athlete turned prank-loving roommate on the sitcom "New Girl," known for his eccentric humor and deep loyalty to his friends.
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B.
Ross Malinger
Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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C.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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D.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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E.
Elliot Alderson
Elliot Alderson is the socially anxious, morphine-addicted cybersecurity engineer and hacker protagonist of the television series "Mr. Robot."
- 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: Michael Scofield Target entity description: Michael Scofield is the brilliant structural engineer and central protagonist of the TV series "Prison Break," known for orchestrating elaborate prison escapes to save his brother and others.
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A.
Winston Bishop
Winston Bishop is a quirky, big-hearted former athlete turned prank-loving roommate on the sitcom "New Girl," known for his eccentric humor and deep loyalty to his friends.
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B.
Ross Malinger
Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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C.
Max Cady
Max Cady is a sadistic ex-convict who obsessively stalks and terrorizes the family of the lawyer he blames for his imprisonment in the thriller film "Cape Fear."
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D.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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E.
Elliot Alderson
Elliot Alderson is the socially anxious, morphine-addicted cybersecurity engineer and hacker protagonist of the television series "Mr. Robot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alias | Kaniel Outis ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Prison Break ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alexander Mahone
ⓘ
Fernando Sucre ⓘ Fox River State Penitentiary ⓘ Paul Kellerman ⓘ Sona Federal Penitentiary ⓘ The Company ⓘ Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | sacrifice to save Sara and his child ⓘ |
| characterArc | self-sacrificing hero ⓘ |
| child |
Michael Scofield
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Michael Scofield Jr.
|
| creator | Paul Scheuring ⓘ |
| education | Loyola University Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | Middleton, Maxwell & Schaum ⓘ |
| familyName | Scofield ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Prison Break: Proof of Innocence
ⓘ
surface form:
Prison Break universe
|
| firstAppearance | Prison Break Season 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action thriller
ⓘ
prison drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasDisorder | low latent inhibition ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
hand-to-hand combat
ⓘ
lock picking ⓘ strategic planning ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ tattoo-based code design ⓘ |
| imprisonedFor | armed robbery of a bank (staged to enter Fox River) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | Fox ⓘ |
| notableFor |
orchestrating prison escapes
ⓘ
saving his brother Lincoln Burrows ⓘ |
| notableWork |
escape plan from Fox River State Penitentiary
ⓘ
escape plan from Sona Federal Penitentiary ⓘ |
| occupation |
prison escape artist
ⓘ
structural engineer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
altruistic
ⓘ
calm under pressure ⓘ highly intelligent ⓘ meticulous planner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Wentworth Miller ⓘ |
| relative |
Aldo Burrows
ⓘ
Christina Scofield ⓘ |
| resurrectedInPlot |
Prison Break: Resurrection (Season 5)
ⓘ
surface form:
Prison Break Season 5
|
| sibling | Lincoln Burrows ⓘ |
| spouse | Sara Tancredi ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
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: Michael Scofield Description of subject: Michael Scofield is the brilliant structural engineer and central protagonist of the TV series "Prison Break," known for orchestrating elaborate prison escapes to save his brother and others.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lincoln Burrows
this entity surface form:
Michael Scofield Jr.
subject surface form:
The Company (Prison Break)
subject surface form:
Lincoln Burrows
this entity surface form:
Michael Scofield Jr.