Vic Mackey
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Vic Mackey is a ruthless, morally corrupt LAPD detective and the central antihero of the crime drama series "The Shield."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vic Mackey canonical | 53 |
| Vic Mackey as a corrupt but effective cop | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2995316 — 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: Vic Mackey Context triple: [The Shield, mainCharacter, Vic Mackey]
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A.
Omar Little
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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B.
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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C.
Christopher Moltisanti
Christopher Moltisanti is a central character in the television series "The Sopranos," depicted as Tony Soprano’s volatile protégé whose struggles with addiction, ambition, and loyalty drive many of the show’s key storylines.
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D.
Mike Ehrmantraut
Mike Ehrmantraut is a highly skilled, stoic fixer and enforcer in the Breaking Bad universe, known for his meticulous professionalism and complex moral code.
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E.
Billy Butcher
Billy Butcher is a ruthless, foul-mouthed vigilante leader from the comic and TV series "The Boys," obsessed with taking down corrupt superheroes by any means necessary.
- 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: Vic Mackey Target entity description: Vic Mackey is a ruthless, morally corrupt LAPD detective and the central antihero of the crime drama series "The Shield."
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A.
Omar Little
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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B.
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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C.
Christopher Moltisanti
Christopher Moltisanti is a central character in the television series "The Sopranos," depicted as Tony Soprano’s volatile protégé whose struggles with addiction, ambition, and loyalty drive many of the show’s key storylines.
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D.
Mike Ehrmantraut
Mike Ehrmantraut is a highly skilled, stoic fixer and enforcer in the Breaking Bad universe, known for his meticulous professionalism and complex moral code.
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E.
Billy Butcher
Billy Butcher is a ruthless, foul-mouthed vigilante leader from the comic and TV series "The Boys," obsessed with taking down corrupt superheroes by any means necessary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Vic Mackey Description of subject: Vic Mackey is a ruthless, morally corrupt LAPD detective and the central antihero of the crime drama series "The Shield."
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shane Vendrell in The Shield
subject linked to:
Shane Vendrell in The Shield
subject linked to:
Shane Vendrell in The Shield
subject linked to:
Danielle "Danny" Sofer
subject linked to:
Danielle "Danny" Sofer
linked to: Vic Mackey
subject linked to:
FX network series The Shield
subject linked to:
Detective Curtis Lemansky
subject linked to:
Detective Ronnie Gardocki
subject linked to:
Detective Ronnie Gardocki
subject linked to:
Dutch
subject linked to:
Chiklis
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Season 7 of The Shield
subject linked to:
Season 7 of The Shield