Ezekiel (The Walking Dead)
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Ezekiel is a charismatic former zookeeper turned theatrical community leader in The Walking Dead, known for his regal persona, pet tiger Shiva, and role as the king of the Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ezekiel (The Walking Dead) canonical | 3 |
| Shiva (The Walking Dead) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7658723 — 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: Ezekiel (The Walking Dead) Context triple: [Kingdom (The Walking Dead), leader, Ezekiel (The Walking Dead)]
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A.
Negan
Negan is a notorious, charismatic, and brutal antagonist-turned-antihero in The Walking Dead franchise, known for leading the Saviors and wielding his barbed-wire baseball bat, Lucille.
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B.
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus is an American actor and model best known for his role as Daryl Dixon on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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C.
Rick Grimes
Rick Grimes is the former sheriff’s deputy and central protagonist of The Walking Dead franchise, known for leading a group of survivors through a brutal post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies and hostile humans.
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D.
Exodus Simmons
Exodus Simmons is a person after whom the entity "Exodus" is named, likely serving as its namesake or inspiration.
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E.
Daryl Dixon (character)
Daryl Dixon is a skilled, crossbow-wielding survivor and fan-favorite character from the television series "The Walking Dead."
- 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: Ezekiel (The Walking Dead) Target entity description: Ezekiel is a charismatic former zookeeper turned theatrical community leader in The Walking Dead, known for his regal persona, pet tiger Shiva, and role as the king of the Kingdom.
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A.
Negan
Negan is a notorious, charismatic, and brutal antagonist-turned-antihero in The Walking Dead franchise, known for leading the Saviors and wielding his barbed-wire baseball bat, Lucille.
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B.
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus is an American actor and model best known for his role as Daryl Dixon on the television series "The Walking Dead."
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C.
Rick Grimes
Rick Grimes is the former sheriff’s deputy and central protagonist of The Walking Dead franchise, known for leading a group of survivors through a brutal post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies and hostile humans.
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D.
Exodus Simmons
Exodus Simmons is a person after whom the entity "Exodus" is named, likely serving as its namesake or inspiration.
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E.
Daryl Dixon (character)
Daryl Dixon is a skilled, crossbow-wielding survivor and fan-favorite character from the television series "The Walking Dead."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book character
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fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | The Commonwealth (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alias | King Ezekiel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliesWith |
Carol Peletier
NERFINISHED
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Maggie Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgan Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Grimes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Walking Dead (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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The Walking Dead (comic book series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backstory | former zookeeper who cared for Shiva before the apocalypse ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ezekiel (The Walking Dead comics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Charlie Adlard
NERFINISHED
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Robert Kirkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathMethod | decapitation and pike display (comics) ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Negan
NERFINISHED
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The Saviors (The Walking Dead) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Walking Dead, issue #108 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceTV | The Walking Dead, season 7 episode "The Well" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsRelationshipWith | Carol Peletier (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPet | Shiva (The Walking Dead) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| healthIssue | thyroid cancer (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Whisperers (comics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leaderOf | The Kingdom (The Walking Dead) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadershipStyle | benevolent monarchy ⓘ |
| memberOf | Militia alliance against the Saviors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
joins alliance with Alexandria and Hilltop against the Saviors
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loses Shiva during an attack by walkers (TV series) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor (pre-apocalypse, TV continuity)
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community leader ⓘ zookeeper ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charismatic
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compassionate ⓘ optimistic ⓘ theatrical ⓘ |
| petName | Shiva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| petSpecies | tiger ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Khary Payton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | The Kingdom (The Walking Dead) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInCommonwealth |
animal caretaker (TV series)
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community organizer (TV series) ⓘ |
| speakingStyle |
Shakespearean-influenced
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regal ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| survives | All Out War storyline (comics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbol |
kingly scepter (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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tiger ⓘ |
| treatedBy | Tomás (doctor in Commonwealth, TV series) 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: Ezekiel (The Walking Dead) Description of subject: Ezekiel is a charismatic former zookeeper turned theatrical community leader in The Walking Dead, known for his regal persona, pet tiger Shiva, and role as the king of the Kingdom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shiva (The Walking Dead)