Inspector Alan Grant
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Inspector Alan Grant is the fictional Scotland Yard detective created by Josephine Tey, best known for re-examining the historical mystery of Richard III in the novel "The Daughter of Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Inspector Alan Grant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11076513 — 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: Inspector Alan Grant Context triple: [The Daughter of Time, mainCharacter, Inspector Alan Grant]
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A.
Alan Grant
Alan Grant is a fictional paleontologist and one of the main protagonists in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel and its film adaptations, known for his expertise on dinosaurs and his harrowing experiences on Isla Nublar.
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B.
Dr. Grant Seeker
Dr. Grant Seeker is a fictional paleontologist character known for his adventurous dinosaur-hunting exploits.
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C.
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Dr. Ian Malcolm is a charismatic, chaos-theory mathematician best known as a central character in the Jurassic Park franchise, where he skeptically challenges the hubris of resurrecting dinosaurs.
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D.
Frank S. Black
Frank S. Black was a Republican politician who served as the 32nd governor of New York from 1897 to 1898.
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E.
Dr. Niles Crane
Dr. Niles Crane is a fastidious, neurotic psychiatrist and the younger brother of Frasier Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
- 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: Inspector Alan Grant Target entity description: Inspector Alan Grant is the fictional Scotland Yard detective created by Josephine Tey, best known for re-examining the historical mystery of Richard III in the novel "The Daughter of Time."
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A.
Alan Grant
Alan Grant is a fictional paleontologist and one of the main protagonists in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel and its film adaptations, known for his expertise on dinosaurs and his harrowing experiences on Isla Nublar.
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B.
Dr. Grant Seeker
Dr. Grant Seeker is a fictional paleontologist character known for his adventurous dinosaur-hunting exploits.
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C.
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Dr. Ian Malcolm is a charismatic, chaos-theory mathematician best known as a central character in the Jurassic Park franchise, where he skeptically challenges the hubris of resurrecting dinosaurs.
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D.
Frank S. Black
Frank S. Black was a Republican politician who served as the 32nd governor of New York from 1897 to 1898.
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E.
Dr. Niles Crane
Dr. Niles Crane is a fastidious, neurotic psychiatrist and the younger brother of Frasier Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Scotland Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
A Shilling for Candles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Daughter of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ The Franchise Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man in the Queue NERFINISHED ⓘ The Singing Sands NERFINISHED ⓘ To Love and Be Wise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorPseudonym | Josephine Tey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorRealName | Elizabeth MacKintosh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
analytical
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intelligent ⓘ skeptical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Josephine Tey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Metropolitan Police Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1929 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInWork | The Man in the Queue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Inspector Grant universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryTheme |
miscarriage of justice
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reassessment of historical truth ⓘ reliability of evidence ⓘ |
| investigativeMethod |
close attention to evidence
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questioning accepted narratives ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literarySeries | Inspector Grant series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableCase | historical investigation of Richard III ⓘ |
| notableFor | re-examining the historical reputation of Richard III ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Daughter of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
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police inspector ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden Age of detective fiction characters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfWorks | Peter Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Inspector ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
England
NERFINISHED
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London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Inspector Alan Grant Description of subject: Inspector Alan Grant is the fictional Scotland Yard detective created by Josephine Tey, best known for re-examining the historical mystery of Richard III in the novel "The Daughter of Time."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Daughter of Time