Morland Holmes
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Morland Holmes is a character in the TV series "Elementary," depicted as Sherlock Holmes's wealthy, powerful, and morally ambiguous father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Morland Holmes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8953627 — 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: Morland Holmes Context triple: [John Noble, playedCharacter, Morland Holmes]
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A.
Cornelius Sherlock
Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
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B.
William Watson
William Watson was an 18th-century English physician and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments and writings on electricity.
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C.
Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
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D.
Dr. Henry Armitage
Dr. Henry Armitage is a learned and resolute librarian and occult scholar from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, best known for confronting supernatural horrors in “The Dunwich Horror.”
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E.
Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
- 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: Morland Holmes Target entity description: Morland Holmes is a character in the TV series "Elementary," depicted as Sherlock Holmes's wealthy, powerful, and morally ambiguous father.
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A.
Cornelius Sherlock
Cornelius Sherlock was a British architect best known for designing prominent public buildings such as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
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B.
William Watson
William Watson was an 18th-century English physician and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments and writings on electricity.
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C.
Edwin Holgate
Edwin Holgate was a Canadian painter and printmaker associated with the Group of Seven, known for his landscapes and distinctive figure studies that helped shape early 20th-century Canadian art.
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D.
Dr. Henry Armitage
Dr. Henry Armitage is a learned and resolute librarian and occult scholar from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, best known for confronting supernatural horrors in “The Dunwich Horror.”
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E.
Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker was a British geologist and petrologist renowned for his pioneering work on igneous rocks and the geology of the British Isles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Elementary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Elementary season 4
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elementary season 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
manipulative
ⓘ
morally ambiguous ⓘ powerful ⓘ protective of his family ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | Elementary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Doherty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Morland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Mycroft Holmes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnemy | Moriarty organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
antihero ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Mycroft Holmes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Sherlock Holmes’s father in Elementary
ⓘ
leading a global business empire ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
corporate power broker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Noble 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: Morland Holmes Description of subject: Morland Holmes is a character in the TV series "Elementary," depicted as Sherlock Holmes's wealthy, powerful, and morally ambiguous father.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.