Danielle "Danny" Sofer
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Danielle "Danny" Sofer is a police officer character from the television series "The Shield," known for her work in the Farmington Division and her complex personal and professional relationships.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danielle "Danny" Sofer canonical | 1 |
| Danielle Sofer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13257982 — 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: Danielle "Danny" Sofer Context triple: [Farmington Division, associatedWithCharacter, Danielle "Danny" Sofer]
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A.
Danielle Judovits
Danielle Judovits is an American voice actress known for her work in animated television series and video games.
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B.
Ariel Scheinermann
Ariel Scheinermann, better known as Ariel Sharon, was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel and played a pivotal role in the country’s military and political history.
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C.
Danielle Lassner
Danielle Lassner is the mother of television producer Andy Lassner, known for his work on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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D.
Kayla Alpert
Kayla Alpert is a television writer and producer known for her work on series such as the Netflix show "Wednesday."
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E.
Amanda Reifer
Amanda Reifer is a Barbadian singer and former lead vocalist of the pop band Cover Drive who has gained wider recognition through high-profile collaborations in contemporary R&B and hip-hop.
- 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: Danielle "Danny" Sofer Target entity description: Danielle "Danny" Sofer is a police officer character from the television series "The Shield," known for her work in the Farmington Division and her complex personal and professional relationships.
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A.
Danielle Judovits
Danielle Judovits is an American voice actress known for her work in animated television series and video games.
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B.
Ariel Scheinermann
Ariel Scheinermann, better known as Ariel Sharon, was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel and played a pivotal role in the country’s military and political history.
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C.
Danielle Lassner
Danielle Lassner is the mother of television producer Andy Lassner, known for his work on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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D.
Kayla Alpert
Kayla Alpert is a television writer and producer known for her work on series such as the Netflix show "Wednesday."
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E.
Amanda Reifer
Amanda Reifer is a Barbadian singer and former lead vocalist of the pop band Cover Drive who has gained wider recognition through high-profile collaborations in contemporary R&B and hip-hop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Benito Martinez
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CCH Pounder NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Karnes NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Chiklis NERFINISHED ⓘ Walton Goggins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| countryOfSeries | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shawn Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Farmington Division
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles Police Department (fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sofer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | The Shield, season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Danielle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
conflicted ⓘ dedicated to police work ⓘ |
| hasChildWith | Shane Vendrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Claudette Wyms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Aceveda NERFINISHED ⓘ Dutch Wagenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRomanticRelationshipWith |
Shane Vendrell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vic Mackey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStoryRole |
explores challenges faced by female police officers
ⓘ
involved in complex personal and professional relationships ⓘ |
| languageOfSeries | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| networkOfSeries | FX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Danny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Farmington police squad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | The Shield universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Catherine Dent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInSeries |
patrol officer
ⓘ
training officer ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| setIn | Los Angeles (fictional Farmington district) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksAt | Farmington Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Curtis Lemansky
NERFINISHED
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Ronnie Gardocki NERFINISHED ⓘ Shane Vendrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Vic Mackey 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: Danielle "Danny" Sofer Description of subject: Danielle "Danny" Sofer is a police officer character from the television series "The Shield," known for her work in the Farmington Division and her complex personal and professional relationships.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Danielle Sofer