Harry Hole
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Harry Hole is a hard-drinking, brilliant but troubled Norwegian detective created by author Jo Nesbø and featured in his popular crime novel series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Hole canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394463 — 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: Harry Hole Context triple: [The Snowman (2017 film), mainCharacter, Harry Hole]
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A.
Oscar Wisting
Oscar Wisting was a Norwegian polar explorer and close associate of Roald Amundsen, known for his key roles in pioneering expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic.
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B.
Inspector Krogh
Inspector Krogh is a wooden-armed police inspector in the 1939 horror film "Son of Frankenstein," known for his stern demeanor and memorable portrayal by actor Lionel Atwill.
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C.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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D.
Harry Bosch
Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
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E.
Michael Fossum
Michael Fossum is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later commanded the International Space Station.
- 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: Harry Hole Target entity description: Harry Hole is a hard-drinking, brilliant but troubled Norwegian detective created by author Jo Nesbø and featured in his popular crime novel series.
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A.
Oscar Wisting
Oscar Wisting was a Norwegian polar explorer and close associate of Roald Amundsen, known for his key roles in pioneering expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic.
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B.
Inspector Krogh
Inspector Krogh is a wooden-armed police inspector in the 1939 horror film "Son of Frankenstein," known for his stern demeanor and memorable portrayal by actor Lionel Atwill.
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C.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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D.
Harry Bosch
Harry Bosch is a hard-boiled Los Angeles homicide detective and the central protagonist of Michael Connelly’s long-running crime novel series.
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E.
Michael Fossum
Michael Fossum is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and later commanded the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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fictional detective ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | The Snowman (2017 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cockroaches
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Killing Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Knife NERFINISHED ⓘ Nemesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Phantom NERFINISHED ⓘ Police NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil’s Star NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leopard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Redbreast NERFINISHED ⓘ The Redeemer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Snowman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thirst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Harry Hole series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Oslo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
alcoholic
ⓘ
brilliant ⓘ cynical ⓘ obsessive ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Norway ⓘ |
| creator | Jo Nesbø NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harry Hole series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Bat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | alcohol ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Beate Lønn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaja Solness NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Waaler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Rakel Fauke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Norwegian ⓘ |
| nationality | Norwegian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark and gritty investigations
ⓘ
psychologically complex characterization ⓘ |
| occupation |
investigator
ⓘ
police detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Fassbender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfWorks | Aschehoug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oslo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfStories |
Norway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oslo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | Oslo Police Department 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: Harry Hole Description of subject: Harry Hole is a hard-drinking, brilliant but troubled Norwegian detective created by author Jo Nesbø and featured in his popular crime novel series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Snowman (2017 film)