Castle County Sheriff’s Department
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The Castle County Sheriff’s Department is the fictional law enforcement agency serving as the primary setting for many of Stephen King’s crime and horror stories centered in Castle County, Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castle County Sheriff’s Department canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319021 — 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: Castle County Sheriff’s Department Context triple: [George Bannerman, associatedWith, Castle County Sheriff’s Department]
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A.
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for maintaining public safety, enforcing laws, and operating county jails within Clark County.
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B.
Craig County Sheriff’s Office
The Craig County Sheriff’s Office is the primary county-level law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, criminal investigations, and jail operations in Craig County, Oklahoma.
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C.
Cass County Sheriff’s Office
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and jail operations within Cass County.
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D.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is the primary county law enforcement agency serving Jefferson County, Alabama, providing patrol, investigations, jail operations, and support to local police departments.
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E.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and corrections throughout Santa Cruz County, California, including communities such as Boulder Creek.
- 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: Castle County Sheriff’s Department Target entity description: The Castle County Sheriff’s Department is the fictional law enforcement agency serving as the primary setting for many of Stephen King’s crime and horror stories centered in Castle County, Maine.
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A.
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for maintaining public safety, enforcing laws, and operating county jails within Clark County.
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B.
Craig County Sheriff’s Office
The Craig County Sheriff’s Office is the primary county-level law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, criminal investigations, and jail operations in Craig County, Oklahoma.
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C.
Cass County Sheriff’s Office
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and jail operations within Cass County.
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D.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is the primary county law enforcement agency serving Jefferson County, Alabama, providing patrol, investigations, jail operations, and support to local police departments.
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E.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and corrections throughout Santa Cruz County, California, including communities such as Boulder Creek.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional law enforcement agency ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
novel
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| appearsInStateInFiction | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkOf | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Stephen King universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalFunction | county sheriff’s office ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionInFiction | Castle County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameComponent |
Castle County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheriff’s Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoleInStories | primary law enforcement agency ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Castle County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalState | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePurpose | to depict small-town law enforcement in Maine ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalSetting | Castle County setting ⓘ |
| settingFor | Stephen King stories set in Castle County ⓘ |
| usedAsBackdropFor |
crime narratives
ⓘ
horror events ⓘ supernatural events ⓘ |
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: Castle County Sheriff’s Department Description of subject: The Castle County Sheriff’s Department is the fictional law enforcement agency serving as the primary setting for many of Stephen King’s crime and horror stories centered in Castle County, Maine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
George Bannerman