Omar Little
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Omar Little is a notorious, principled stick-up man in the television series "The Wire," known for robbing drug dealers and living by a strict personal code.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Omar Little canonical | 39 |
| Omar Little’s stickup crew | 1 |
| The Wire: Omar Little | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748448 — 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: Omar Little Context triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Omar Little]
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A.
Avon Barksdale
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Raymond Holt
Raymond Holt is a stoic, hyper-competent, and deadpan NYPD captain known for his leadership of the 99th precinct and his subtle, dry humor on the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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E.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
- 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: Omar Little Target entity description: Omar Little is a notorious, principled stick-up man in the television series "The Wire," known for robbing drug dealers and living by a strict personal code.
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A.
Avon Barksdale
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Raymond Holt
Raymond Holt is a stoic, hyper-competent, and deadpan NYPD captain known for his leadership of the 99th precinct and his subtle, dry humor on the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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E.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Omar’s crew ⓘ |
| alliesWith |
Bunk Moreland
ⓘ
Jimmy McNulty ⓘ Lester Freamon ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Wire ⓘ |
| catchphrase | "Omar comin'" ⓘ |
| creator | David Simon ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | widely regarded as one of the greatest TV characters ⓘ |
| deathCause | gunshot wound to the head ⓘ |
| deathLocation | convenience store in Baltimore ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Avon Barksdale
ⓘ
Brother Mouzone (at times) ⓘ Marlo Stanfield ⓘ Stringer Bell ⓘ |
| fearInducingReputation | drug dealers flee when he whistles "The Farmer in the Dell" ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Baltimore drug trade (The Wire) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Wire, Season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wire
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyMember |
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
ⓘ
Josephine (grandmother) ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Donnie Andrews ⓘ |
| killedBy | Kenard ⓘ |
| knownFor |
robbing drug dealers
ⓘ
strict personal code ⓘ |
| lastAppearance |
The Wire, Season 5
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wire
|
| moralCode |
does not harm civilians
ⓘ
targets only those in the drug trade ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| nickname | Omar ⓘ |
| notableHeist |
courtroom testimony against Bird
ⓘ
robbery of Barksdale stash houses ⓘ |
| occupation |
robber
ⓘ
stick-up man ⓘ |
| portrayalPraisedFor |
LGBTQ representation in crime drama
ⓘ
complexity ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael K. Williams ⓘ |
| residesIn | West Baltimore ⓘ |
| romanticPartner |
Brandon Wright
ⓘ
Dante ⓘ Renaldo ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| testifiesAgainst |
Avon Barksdale (indirectly via testimony)
ⓘ
linked to:
Avon Barksdale
Bird ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | shotgun ⓘ |
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: Omar Little Description of subject: Omar Little is a notorious, principled stick-up man in the television series "The Wire," known for robbing drug dealers and living by a strict personal code.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Omar Little
linked to: Omar Little
subject linked to:
Michael Lee in The Wire
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)
subject linked to:
Butchie (surrogate father figure)