Avon Barksdale
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Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avon Barksdale canonical | 33 |
| Avon Barksdale (fictional character) | 1 |
| Avon Barksdale (indirectly via testimony) | 1 |
| Donnie Barksdale | 1 |
| the character Avon Barksdale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748447 — 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: Avon Barksdale Context triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Avon Barksdale]
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A.
Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Netscape during the early commercial growth of the internet.
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B.
Joe Starks
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
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C.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
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D.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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E.
Demond Wilson
Demond Wilson is an American actor and author best known for his role as Lamont Sanford on the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son."
- 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: Avon Barksdale Target entity description: Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
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A.
Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Netscape during the early commercial growth of the internet.
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B.
Joe Starks
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
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C.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
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D.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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E.
Demond Wilson
Demond Wilson is an American actor and author best known for his role as Lamont Sanford on the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Avon Barksdale Description of subject: Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Avon Barksdale
subject linked to:
Wallace (The Wire)
subject linked to:
Wallace (The Wire)
linked to: Avon Barksdale
linked to: Avon Barksdale
subject linked to:
Major Crimes Unit