Carlton Lassiter
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Carlton Lassiter is a hard-nosed, by-the-book head detective on the comedic detective series "Psych," known for his skepticism of the show's faux-psychic protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carlton Lassiter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7356753 — 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: Carlton Lassiter Context triple: [Psych, character, Carlton Lassiter]
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A.
James Lassiter
James Lassiter is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Will Smith through their production company Overbrook Entertainment.
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
Jack McCoy
Jack McCoy is a fictional New York City prosecutor known for his aggressive, morally complex approach to trying cases in the long-running television series "Law & Order."
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D.
Detective Nathan Leckie
Detective Nathan Leckie is a fictional police detective and key law-enforcement figure in the Australian crime drama film "Animal Kingdom."
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E.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
- 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: Carlton Lassiter Target entity description: Carlton Lassiter is a hard-nosed, by-the-book head detective on the comedic detective series "Psych," known for his skepticism of the show's faux-psychic protagonist.
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A.
James Lassiter
James Lassiter is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Will Smith through their production company Overbrook Entertainment.
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B.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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C.
Jack McCoy
Jack McCoy is a fictional New York City prosecutor known for his aggressive, morally complex approach to trying cases in the long-running television series "Law & Order."
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D.
Detective Nathan Leckie
Detective Nathan Leckie is a fictional police detective and key law-enforcement figure in the Australian crime drama film "Animal Kingdom."
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E.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alignment | lawful ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Psych
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Psych 3: This Is Gus NERFINISHED ⓘ Psych: The Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| basedIn | Santa Barbara, California (fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Steve Franks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Santa Barbara Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Psych universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Psych NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Lassie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSkepticalOf | Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jobTitle | Head Detective ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementType | homicide detective ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Santa Barbara Police Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the law ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced (at series start) ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
disbelief in psychic abilities
ⓘ
strong belief in traditional police work ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
head detective ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
by-the-book
ⓘ
hard-nosed ⓘ skeptical ⓘ |
| policeRank |
detective
ⓘ
head detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Timothy Omundson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipToShawnSpencer |
professional rival
ⓘ
reluctant ally ⓘ |
| seriesPrimaryNetwork | USA Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ police procedural ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | handgun ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Burton Guster
NERFINISHED
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Juliet O'Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Vick NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Spencer 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: Carlton Lassiter Description of subject: Carlton Lassiter is a hard-nosed, by-the-book head detective on the comedic detective series "Psych," known for his skepticism of the show's faux-psychic protagonist.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.