Dr. Richard Kimble
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Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Richard Kimble canonical | 6 |
| Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819774 — 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: Dr. Richard Kimble Context triple: [Harrison Ford, characterPortrayed, Dr. Richard Kimble]
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A.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
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B.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
- 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: Dr. Richard Kimble Target entity description: Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
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A.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
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B.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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C.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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D.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| accusedOf | murder of his wife ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Fugitive (1993 film)
ⓘ
The Fugitive (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Fugitive (2000 TV series)
|
| appearsIn |
The Fugitive (TV series)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fugitive (1963 TV series)
The Fugitive (1993 film) ⓘ The Fugitive (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Fugitive (novelizations and tie-in media)
|
| associatedWith |
American Broadcasting Company
ⓘ
surface form:
ABC (American Broadcasting Company)
The Fugitive ⓘ
surface form:
The Fugitive franchise
|
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| creator | Roy Huggins ⓘ |
| enemy |
the One-Armed Man
ⓘ
surface form:
the one-armed man
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | influential archetype of the wrongfully accused fugitive ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
The Fugitive
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fugitive (1963)
|
| keyPlotElement | search for the one-armed man ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
man on the run
ⓘ
quest for justice ⓘ wrongful conviction ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being pursued as a fugitive
ⓘ
being wrongfully accused of murdering his wife ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
ⓘ
surgeon ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
David Janssen
ⓘ
Harrison Ford ⓘ Tim Daly ⓘ |
| portrayedByIn1963Series | David Janssen ⓘ |
| portrayedByIn1993Film | Harrison Ford ⓘ |
| portrayedByIn2000Series | Tim Daly ⓘ |
| primaryAntagonistInStory |
Philip Gerard
ⓘ
Samuel Gerard ⓘ |
| professionInStory | vascular surgeon ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard
ⓘ
surface form:
Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard
Lt. Philip Gerard ⓘ
surface form:
Lieutenant Philip Gerard
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| settingOfCriminalCase |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| spouse | Helen Kimble ⓘ |
| wronglyAccused | true ⓘ |
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: Dr. Richard Kimble Description of subject: Dr. Richard Kimble is the wrongfully accused surgeon protagonist of "The Fugitive," best known from Harrison Ford’s portrayal in the 1993 film adaptation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard
subject surface form:
Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard
this entity surface form:
Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble