Tim Kang
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Tim Kang is an American actor best known for his role as stoic CBI agent Kimball Cho on the television series "The Mentalist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim Kang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6628223 — 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: Tim Kang Context triple: [The Mentalist, leadActor, Tim Kang]
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A.
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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B.
Ryan Chan
Ryan Chan is a film editor known for his work on the 2020 adaptation of "The Witches."
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C.
Christopher Chung
Christopher Chung is an actor known for his role in the British spy drama series "Slow Horses."
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D.
Johnny Chiang
Johnny Chiang is a Taiwanese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Kuomintang (KMT) party and as a legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
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E.
Michael Chan
Michael Chan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, business, and entertainment.
- 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: Tim Kang Target entity description: Tim Kang is an American actor best known for his role as stoic CBI agent Kimball Cho on the television series "The Mentalist."
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A.
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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B.
Ryan Chan
Ryan Chan is a film editor known for his work on the 2020 adaptation of "The Witches."
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C.
Christopher Chung
Christopher Chung is an actor known for his role in the British spy drama series "Slow Horses."
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D.
Johnny Chiang
Johnny Chiang is a Taiwanese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Kuomintang (KMT) party and as a legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
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E.
Michael Chan
Michael Chan is a common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, business, and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film industry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American television industry ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ Rambo (2008 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Robot Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Office NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Weeks Notice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Yila Timothy Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterAffiliation | California Bureau of Investigation (fictional CBI unit in The Mentalist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Kimball Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Korean American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
government
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 1 daughter ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing stoic CBI agent Kimball Cho on The Mentalist ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Tim Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfShow | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacterTraitOfRole | stoic demeanor as Kimball Cho ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Kimball Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedProfessionOfCharacter | California Bureau of Investigation agent ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Tim Kang Description of subject: Tim Kang is an American actor best known for his role as stoic CBI agent Kimball Cho on the television series "The Mentalist."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.