C.P.O. Sharkey
E770083
C.P.O. Sharkey is a 1970s American television sitcom starring Don Rickles as a sharp-tongued Navy chief petty officer training a diverse group of recruits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C.P.O. Sharkey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8963283 — 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: C.P.O. Sharkey Context triple: [Don Rickles, notableWork, C.P.O. Sharkey]
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A.
Sergeant Bilko
Sergeant Bilko is a classic American television sitcom character, a fast-talking, scheming Army sergeant known for his comedic cons and leadership of a misfit platoon.
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B.
Marv Tarplin
Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
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C.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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D.
Magoo
Magoo was an American rapper best known as one half of the hip hop duo Timbaland & Magoo, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
- 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: C.P.O. Sharkey Target entity description: C.P.O. Sharkey is a 1970s American television sitcom starring Don Rickles as a sharp-tongued Navy chief petty officer training a diverse group of recruits.
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A.
Sergeant Bilko
Sergeant Bilko is a classic American television sitcom character, a fast-talking, scheming Army sergeant known for his comedic cons and leadership of a misfit platoon.
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B.
Marv Tarplin
Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
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C.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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D.
Magoo
Magoo was an American rapper best known as one half of the hip hop duo Timbaland & Magoo, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | half-hour episodes ⓘ |
| character | Chief Petty Officer Otto Sharkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| executiveProducer | Ed. Weinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features |
U.S. Navy recruits
ⓘ
ethnically diverse recruits ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1976 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasTheme | military comedy ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1978 ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Don Rickles as CPO Otto Sharkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | Navy chief petty officer ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor | Don Rickles’ insult comedy style ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 37 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalRunEndYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| producer | Aaron Ruben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | United States Navy training base ⓘ |
| starring | Don Rickles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
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: C.P.O. Sharkey Description of subject: C.P.O. Sharkey is a 1970s American television sitcom starring Don Rickles as a sharp-tongued Navy chief petty officer training a diverse group of recruits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.