Farmington precinct
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Farmington precinct is the fictional Los Angeles Police Department division that serves as the primary setting for the television series "The Shield."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Farmington precinct canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13258301 — 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: Farmington precinct Context triple: [Monica Rawling, workLocation, Farmington precinct]
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A.
Cumberland Posey
Cumberland Posey was a prominent Negro league baseball executive and Hall of Famer best known for building the Homestead Grays into one of the most dominant teams in Black baseball history.
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B.
Effingham
Effingham is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the North Downs.
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C.
Winfield Township
Winfield Township is a local governmental subdivision, likely in the United States, responsible for providing municipal services and administration to residents within its township boundaries.
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D.
Darke County
Darke County is a rural county in western Ohio known for its agricultural economy and county seat, Greenville.
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E.
McCordsville
McCordsville is a growing suburban town in Hancock County, Indiana, known for its residential communities and proximity to Indianapolis.
- 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: Farmington precinct Target entity description: Farmington precinct is the fictional Los Angeles Police Department division that serves as the primary setting for the television series "The Shield."
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A.
Cumberland Posey
Cumberland Posey was a prominent Negro league baseball executive and Hall of Famer best known for building the Homestead Grays into one of the most dominant teams in Black baseball history.
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B.
Effingham
Effingham is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the North Downs.
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C.
Winfield Township
Winfield Township is a local governmental subdivision, likely in the United States, responsible for providing municipal services and administration to residents within its township boundaries.
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D.
Darke County
Darke County is a rural county in western Ohio known for its agricultural economy and county seat, Greenville.
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E.
McCordsville
McCordsville is a growing suburban town in Hancock County, Indiana, known for its residential communities and proximity to Indianapolis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional organization
ⓘ
fictional police station ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Barn ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Shield ⓘ |
| buildingTypeFictional | converted church ⓘ |
| commandedByFictional |
Captain Claudette Wyms
ⓘ
Captain David Aceveda ⓘ Captain Monica Rawling ⓘ
linked to:
Monica Rawling
|
| countryFictional |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creatorContext | Shawn Ryan ⓘ |
| depictsTheme |
conflict between justice and legality
ⓘ
moral ambiguity in law enforcement ⓘ |
| featureInPlot |
gang violence
ⓘ
internal affairs investigations ⓘ police corruption ⓘ political pressure ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
The Shield season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Season 1 of The Shield
|
| genreContext |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole |
Captain
ⓘ
Detective ⓘ Patrol officer ⓘ Sergeant ⓘ |
| hasDepartmentFictional |
Homicide
ⓘ
Narcotics ⓘ Patrol ⓘ Vice ⓘ |
| hasFictionalJurisdiction |
Farmington neighborhood
ⓘ
surrounding areas of Los Angeles ⓘ |
| hasSetLocationRealWorld | Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| hasUnit | Strike Team ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional |
Farmington, Los Angeles
ⓘ
Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| networkContext |
FX (U.S. TV network)
ⓘ
linked to:
FX Networks
|
| notableUnitMemberFictional |
Detective Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
ⓘ
linked to:
Detective Curtis Lemansky
Detective Ronnie Gardocki ⓘ Detective Shane Vendrell ⓘ Detective Vic Mackey ⓘ |
| partOf | Los Angeles Police Department (fictional) ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf | The Shield ⓘ |
| timePeriodFictional | early 2000s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
briefings (fictional)
ⓘ
community outreach (fictional) ⓘ holding cells (fictional) ⓘ interrogations (fictional) ⓘ |
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: Farmington precinct Description of subject: Farmington precinct is the fictional Los Angeles Police Department division that serves as the primary setting for the television series "The Shield."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.