Danny Sofer
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Danny Sofer is a character from the television series "The Shield," known as a dedicated and tough patrol officer in the LAPD's Farmington district.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Sofer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13258233 — 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: Danny Sofer Context triple: [Julien Lowe, partner, Danny Sofer]
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A.
Mark Rosner
Mark Rosner is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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B.
Dan Shulman
Dan Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster best known for his long-running play-by-play work on Major League Baseball and college basketball broadcasts for ESPN and other networks.
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C.
Andy Shernoff
Andy Shernoff is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the influential punk rock band The Dictators.
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D.
Shai Friedman
Shai Friedman is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Friedman, though specific widely known public details about them are not provided.
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E.
Jeremy Yaffe
Jeremy Yaffe is an American nurse best known as the first wife of actor Alan Arkin and the mother of actor Adam Arkin.
- 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: Danny Sofer Target entity description: Danny Sofer is a character from the television series "The Shield," known as a dedicated and tough patrol officer in the LAPD's Farmington district.
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A.
Mark Rosner
Mark Rosner is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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B.
Dan Shulman
Dan Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster best known for his long-running play-by-play work on Major League Baseball and college basketball broadcasts for ESPN and other networks.
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C.
Andy Shernoff
Andy Shernoff is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the influential punk rock band The Dictators.
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D.
Shai Friedman
Shai Friedman is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Friedman, though specific widely known public details about them are not provided.
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E.
Jeremy Yaffe
Jeremy Yaffe is an American nurse best known as the first wife of actor Alan Arkin and the mother of actor Adam Arkin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | FX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
dedicated ⓘ ethical ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shawn Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Los Angeles Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | The Shield season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChildWith | Vic Mackey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRank | officer ⓘ |
| hasStoryArc |
coparenting conflict with Vic Mackey
ⓘ
professional challenges in patrol division ⓘ struggles with work–life balance ⓘ |
| hasStoryRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| languageSpokenInFiction | English ⓘ |
| loyalty | LAPD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
LAPD patrol officer
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| parentOf | Lee Sofer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | The Shield universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Catherine Dent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksInFictionalLocation | Farmington district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Claudette Wyms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dutch Wagenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ Julien Lowe NERFINISHED ⓘ Vic Mackey 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: Danny Sofer Description of subject: Danny Sofer is a character from the television series "The Shield," known as a dedicated and tough patrol officer in the LAPD's Farmington district.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.