Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T
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Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by rapper and actor Ice-T.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759907 — 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: Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T Context triple: [Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, characterPortrayedBy, Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T]
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A.
Michael Olatunji
Michael Olatunji, better known as Babatunde Olatunji, was a pioneering Nigerian drummer and bandleader who popularized African percussion and rhythms in American jazz and world music.
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B.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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C.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
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D.
T. M. Aluko
T. M. Aluko was a Nigerian civil engineer, academic, and novelist known for his satirical works on Nigerian society and postcolonial bureaucracy.
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E.
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, and political activist who created and popularized Afrobeat by fusing traditional African rhythms with jazz, funk, and highlife.
- 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: Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T Target entity description: Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by rapper and actor Ice-T.
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A.
Michael Olatunji
Michael Olatunji, better known as Babatunde Olatunji, was a pioneering Nigerian drummer and bandleader who popularized African percussion and rhythms in American jazz and world music.
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B.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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C.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer and environmental activist best known for leading nonviolent campaigns against oil industry pollution and government neglect in the Niger Delta.
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D.
T. M. Aluko
T. M. Aluko was a Nigerian civil engineer, academic, and novelist known for his satirical works on Nigerian society and postcolonial bureaucracy.
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E.
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, and political activist who created and popularized Afrobeat by fusing traditional African rhythms with jazz, funk, and highlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Law & Order franchise
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | television series ⓘ |
| badgeOrganization | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOfService | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
streetwise
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| child | Ken Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Gulf War ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dick Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Tutuola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | Wrong Is Right NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | undercover narcotics officer ⓘ |
| formerPartner | John Munch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Odafin Tutuola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | police procedural ⓘ |
| givenName | Odafin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBadgeNumber | TBA (unspecified in series) ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasPersonality |
no-nonsense
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ |
| homeCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Olivia Benson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SVU squad ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army Rangers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| nickname | Fin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | detective ⓘ |
| partner |
Amanda Rollins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dominick Carisi Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policeDepartment | Manhattan Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ice-T NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Detective ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| seriesRegularSinceSeason | 2 ⓘ |
| setting | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specialization | sex crimes investigations ⓘ |
| worksFor | NYPD Special Victims Unit 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: Odafin Tutuola – Ice-T Description of subject: Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by rapper and actor Ice-T.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.