Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
E510849
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sgt. Joe Broadhurst canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303921 — 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: Sgt. Joe Broadhurst Context triple: [McCloud, hasCharacter, Sgt. Joe Broadhurst]
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A.
Sgt. Al Powell
Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
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B.
Sergeant Dan Scott
Sergeant Dan Scott is a fictional police detective and sidekick to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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C.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
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D.
Sergeant Ben Jones
Sergeant Ben Jones is a fictional police detective and sidekick character in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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E.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
- 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: Sgt. Joe Broadhurst Target entity description: Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
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A.
Sgt. Al Powell
Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
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B.
Sergeant Dan Scott
Sergeant Dan Scott is a fictional police detective and sidekick to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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C.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
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D.
Sergeant Ben Jones
Sergeant Ben Jones is a fictional police detective and sidekick character in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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E.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInFictionalUniverse | McCloud universe ⓘ |
| characterType | law enforcement officer ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstAppearanceIn | McCloud (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police sergeant ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOfWork | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policeDepartment | NYPD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | 1970s American television ⓘ |
| rank | sergeant ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
| workFormat | episodic television series ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith | Sam McCloud 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: Sgt. Joe Broadhurst Description of subject: Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.