Sergeant Joe Bomowski
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Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant Joe Bomowski canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200558 — 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: Sergeant Joe Bomowski Context triple: [Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, mainCharacter, Sergeant Joe Bomowski]
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A.
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
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B.
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
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C.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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E.
Sergeant Rita Vrataski
Sergeant Rita Vrataski is a highly skilled and legendary soldier famed for her pivotal role in humanity’s battle against alien invaders in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
- 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: Sergeant Joe Bomowski Target entity description: Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
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A.
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
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B.
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
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C.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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D.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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E.
Sergeant Rita Vrataski
Sergeant Rita Vrataski is a highly skilled and legendary soldier famed for her pivotal role in humanity’s battle against alien invaders in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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police detective ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot ⓘ |
| characterArc | learns to accept his mother’s involvement in his life ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
beleaguered
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dedicated to his job ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| conflict |
interference from his mother in his personal life
ⓘ
interference from his mother in his police work ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | non-animated live-action character ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot universe ⓘ |
| filmGenreOfWork | action comedy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Joe Bomowski ⓘ |
| hasPersonality |
good-hearted
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short-tempered ⓘ |
| hasProblem |
difficulty balancing personal life and job
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embarrassment caused by his mother’s behavior ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Tutty Bomowski ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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surface form:
1992 film Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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| isSubjectOf |
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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surface form:
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992 film)
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| mother | Tutty Bomowski ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
family interference in professional life
ⓘ
mother–son relationship ⓘ |
| occupation | police detective ⓘ |
| policeBranch | detective division ⓘ |
| policeDepartment | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| policeRank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sylvester Stallone ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| rank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| relationshipWithMother | strained but affectionate ⓘ |
| title | Sergeant ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| worksAs | detective in the LAPD ⓘ |
| worksInField | law enforcement ⓘ |
| worksOn | criminal investigations in Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sergeant Joe Bomowski Description of subject: Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.