Psych detective agency
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The Psych detective agency is a quirky Santa Barbara-based investigative firm known for solving cases through the faux-psychic insights of Shawn Spencer and the grounded support of his best friend and business partner Burton "Gus" Guster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Psych detective agency canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7356801 — 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: Psych detective agency Context triple: [Burton "Gus" Guster, coOwnerOf, Psych detective agency]
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A.
City Detective
City Detective was an American crime drama television series from the 1950s that followed a big-city police detective solving various cases.
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B.
Logical Investigations
Logical Investigations is a foundational philosophical work by Edmund Husserl that helped establish phenomenology and significantly influenced 20th-century continental philosophy.
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C.
Paul Drake Detective Agency
The Paul Drake Detective Agency is the private investigation firm run by fictional detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason series.
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D.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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E.
Crime Beat
Crime Beat is a nonfiction collection by Michael Connelly that compiles his true-crime newspaper columns and essays from his years as a crime reporter.
- 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: Psych detective agency Target entity description: The Psych detective agency is a quirky Santa Barbara-based investigative firm known for solving cases through the faux-psychic insights of Shawn Spencer and the grounded support of his best friend and business partner Burton "Gus" Guster.
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A.
City Detective
City Detective was an American crime drama television series from the 1950s that followed a big-city police detective solving various cases.
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B.
Logical Investigations
Logical Investigations is a foundational philosophical work by Edmund Husserl that helped establish phenomenology and significantly influenced 20th-century continental philosophy.
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C.
Paul Drake Detective Agency
The Paul Drake Detective Agency is the private investigation firm run by fictional detective Paul Drake in the Perry Mason series.
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D.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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E.
Crime Beat
Crime Beat is a nonfiction collection by Michael Connelly that compiles his true-crime newspaper columns and essays from his years as a crime reporter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business
ⓘ
fictional detective agency ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Psych
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Psych (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Santa Barbara, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Steve Franks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employs |
Burton "Gus" Guster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Psych season 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | fee-for-service investigations ⓘ |
| hasBusinessPartner |
Burton "Gus" Guster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClient | Santa Barbara Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoFounder |
Burton "Gus" Guster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Santa Barbara, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Burton "Gus" Guster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carlton Lassiter NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ Juliet O'Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOnScreenDepiction | office with playful, colorful decor ⓘ |
| hasOwner |
Burton "Gus" Guster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shawn Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Carlton Lassiter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ Juliet O'Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTagline | fake psychic, real detectives ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| methodOfInvestigation |
observation and deduction
ⓘ
pretending to use psychic abilities ⓘ |
| notableFor |
faux-psychic detective work
ⓘ
humorous approach to crime solving ⓘ |
| operatesInFictionalUniverse | Psych universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryService |
consulting for law enforcement
ⓘ
private investigation ⓘ |
| solves |
criminal cases
ⓘ
fraud cases ⓘ missing persons cases ⓘ |
| tone |
comedic
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light-hearted ⓘ |
| worksWith | Santa Barbara Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Psych detective agency Description of subject: The Psych detective agency is a quirky Santa Barbara-based investigative firm known for solving cases through the faux-psychic insights of Shawn Spencer and the grounded support of his best friend and business partner Burton "Gus" Guster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.