Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack
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Detective Michael Olshansky is the troubled former police officer turned Philadelphia cab driver and part-time investigator at the center of the crime drama series "Hack."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3497108 — 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: Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack Context triple: [David Morse, hasRole, Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack]
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A.
Detective Mike Bosko in Heat
Detective Mike Bosko in *Heat* is a supporting LAPD detective character portrayed by Ted Levine in Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller.
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B.
Inspector Steve Keller
Inspector Steve Keller is a fictional young homicide detective and partner to veteran cop Mike Stone in the 1970s American crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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C.
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
Inspector Steve Keller is the young, idealistic homicide detective played by Michael Douglas in the 1970s crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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D.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
Jake Hooker
Jake Hooker was an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and co-writer of the hit song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
- 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: Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack Target entity description: Detective Michael Olshansky is the troubled former police officer turned Philadelphia cab driver and part-time investigator at the center of the crime drama series "Hack."
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A.
Detective Mike Bosko in Heat
Detective Mike Bosko in *Heat* is a supporting LAPD detective character portrayed by Ted Levine in Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller.
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B.
Inspector Steve Keller
Inspector Steve Keller is a fictional young homicide detective and partner to veteran cop Mike Stone in the 1970s American crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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C.
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
Inspector Steve Keller is the young, idealistic homicide detective played by Michael Douglas in the 1970s crime drama series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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D.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
Jake Hooker
Jake Hooker was an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and co-writer of the hit song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hack ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerOccupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryElement | left the police force under troubled circumstances ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
morally driven
ⓘ
seeks redemption ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFocusOf | Hack ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcastContext | CBS ⓘ |
| occupation |
private investigator
ⓘ
taxi driver ⓘ |
| partTimeOccupation | investigator ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Morse ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Philadelphia police detective ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Hack ⓘ |
| vehicleUsed | taxicab ⓘ |
| workLocation | Philadelphia ⓘ |
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: Detective Michael Olshansky in Hack Description of subject: Detective Michael Olshansky is the troubled former police officer turned Philadelphia cab driver and part-time investigator at the center of the crime drama series "Hack."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.