Kimball Cho
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Kimball Cho is a stoic, highly disciplined investigator and former gang member who serves as a key member of Patrick Jane’s team in the crime drama series "The Mentalist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kimball Cho canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6628214 — 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: Kimball Cho Context triple: [The Mentalist, mainCharacter, Kimball Cho]
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A.
Kenneth Choi
Kenneth Choi is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "9-1-1" and films including "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming."
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B.
Michael Kang
Michael Kang is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and prominent member of the jam band The String Cheese Incident.
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C.
Chris Chambers
Chris Chambers is a sensitive, troubled yet loyal boy from a rough family background in Stephen King’s coming-of-age story "The Body" and its film adaptation "Stand by Me."
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D.
Aaron Yoo
Aaron Yoo is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films like "Disturbia," "21," and "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," as well as various television appearances.
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E.
Jin Lee
Jin Lee is the gentle, supportive father of protagonist Meilin "Mei" Lee in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
- 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: Kimball Cho Target entity description: Kimball Cho is a stoic, highly disciplined investigator and former gang member who serves as a key member of Patrick Jane’s team in the crime drama series "The Mentalist."
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A.
Kenneth Choi
Kenneth Choi is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "9-1-1" and films including "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming."
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B.
Michael Kang
Michael Kang is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and prominent member of the jam band The String Cheese Incident.
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C.
Chris Chambers
Chris Chambers is a sensitive, troubled yet loyal boy from a rough family background in Stephen King’s coming-of-age story "The Body" and its film adaptation "Stand by Me."
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D.
Aaron Yoo
Aaron Yoo is an American actor known for his supporting roles in films like "Disturbia," "21," and "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," as well as various television appearances.
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E.
Jin Lee
Jin Lee is the gentle, supportive father of protagonist Meilin "Mei" Lee in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| creator | Bruno Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
California Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Pilot (The Mentalist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerMemberOf | street gang ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPastOccupation | gang member ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
disciplined
ⓘ
dry sense of humor ⓘ stoic ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipType | mentor to junior agents ⓘ |
| hasWorkEthic | highly professional ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Patrick Jane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Teresa Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
California Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patrick Jane's team ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
follows rules closely
ⓘ
rarely shows emotion ⓘ |
| occupation |
CBI agent
ⓘ
investigator ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tim Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
field operations
ⓘ
interrogation ⓘ |
| storyArc | transition from CBI to FBI ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Grace Van Pelt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patrick Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ Teresa Lisbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Rigsby 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: Kimball Cho Description of subject: Kimball Cho is a stoic, highly disciplined investigator and former gang member who serves as a key member of Patrick Jane’s team in the crime drama series "The Mentalist."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.