Raymond "Red" Reddington
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Raymond "Red" Reddington is the enigmatic, charismatic criminal mastermind and FBI informant at the center of the television series "The Blacklist."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raymond "Red" Reddington canonical | 2 |
| Raymond Reddington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4676666 — 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: Raymond "Red" Reddington Context triple: [James Spader, characterPortrayed, Raymond "Red" Reddington]
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A.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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B.
Sam Coulson
Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
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C.
Harold Finch
Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
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D.
Don Gately
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
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E.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
- 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: Raymond "Red" Reddington Target entity description: Raymond "Red" Reddington is the enigmatic, charismatic criminal mastermind and FBI informant at the center of the television series "The Blacklist."
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A.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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B.
Sam Coulson
Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
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C.
Harold Finch
Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
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D.
Don Gately
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
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E.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner is a high-ranking FBI assistant director who oversees and often clashes with Agents Mulder and Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| alignment | antihero ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Reddington criminal empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jon Bokenkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demandsToWorkWith | Elizabeth Keen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Blacklist, Season 1 Episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerAffiliation | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Raymond Reddington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme | moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charismatic personality
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extensive criminal network ⓘ manipulative behavior ⓘ storytelling ⓘ strategic genius ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| listKnownAs | The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo | his own interests ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryRank | U.S. Navy officer ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkIncludes | various international criminals ⓘ |
| nickname | Red ⓘ |
| notableFor | The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI informant
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criminal mastermind ⓘ former U.S. Navy officer ⓘ international fugitive ⓘ |
| operatesIn | international underworld ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
calculating
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charming ⓘ enigmatic ⓘ ruthless ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Spader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryContactAtFBI | Elizabeth Keen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectiveOf | Elizabeth Keen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesToFBI | list of dangerous criminals ⓘ |
| relationshipToElizabethKeen | mysterious protector ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
brokering deals
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information trading ⓘ |
| statusAtSeriesStart | most wanted fugitive ⓘ |
| turnsHimselfInTo | FBI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wantedBy | FBI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Raymond "Red" Reddington Description of subject: Raymond "Red" Reddington is the enigmatic, charismatic criminal mastermind and FBI informant at the center of the television series "The Blacklist."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Raymond Reddington