Frank Black
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Frank Black is the troubled former FBI profiler with a unique ability to see into the minds of killers, serving as the central character of the 1990s television series "Millennium."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Black canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11689299 — 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: Frank Black Context triple: [Lance Henriksen, playedCharacter, Frank Black]
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A.
J. Anderson Black
J. Anderson Black is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1998 adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
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B.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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C.
Adam Storke
Adam Storke is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including his prominent appearance in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Stand."
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D.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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E.
Trevor Upham
Trevor Upham is an American physician and attorney best known as the husband of lawyer and author Cate Edwards, daughter of former U.S. Senator John Edwards.
- 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: Frank Black Target entity description: Frank Black is the troubled former FBI profiler with a unique ability to see into the minds of killers, serving as the central character of the 1990s television series "Millennium."
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A.
J. Anderson Black
J. Anderson Black is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1998 adventure film "Tarzan and the Lost City."
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B.
Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is an American musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the slowcore band Low, noted for his minimalist, atmospheric songwriting.
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C.
Adam Storke
Adam Storke is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including his prominent appearance in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Stand."
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D.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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E.
Trevor Upham
Trevor Upham is an American physician and attorney best known as the husband of lawyer and author Cate Edwards, daughter of former U.S. Senator John Edwards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | Millennium Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeConnection | approaching year 2000 apocalypse ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
empathetic
ⓘ
introspective ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| child | Jordan Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Millennium Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfSeriesOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Chris Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossoverAppearance | The X-Files NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossoverEpisode | The X-Files: Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millennium Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Millennium season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| formerResidence | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Frank Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfSeries |
crime drama
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ supernatural drama ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
ability to see into the minds of killers
ⓘ
psychic visions ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the central character of Millennium
ⓘ
using visions to profile killers ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasonsInSeries | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI profiler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
criminal profiler ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lance Henriksen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesCreator | Chris Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesRunEndYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| seriesRunStartYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| seriesType | television series ⓘ |
| settingOfStories |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Catherine Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksAgainst |
serial killers
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violent criminals ⓘ |
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: Frank Black Description of subject: Frank Black is the troubled former FBI profiler with a unique ability to see into the minds of killers, serving as the central character of the 1990s television series "Millennium."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.