Sergeant Joe Swanson
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Sergeant Joe Swanson is a tough, wheelchair-using police officer and Peter Griffin’s close friend on the animated television series "Family Guy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergeant Joe Swanson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5566202 — 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: Sergeant Joe Swanson Context triple: [Quahog Police Department, hasMember, Sergeant Joe Swanson]
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A.
Sergeant Joe Bomowski
Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
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B.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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C.
Sergeant Elias Grodin
Sergeant Elias Grodin is a central, idealistic yet battle-weary soldier in the Vietnam War film "Platoon," known for his moral integrity and conflict with the more brutal Sergeant Barnes.
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D.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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E.
Sergeant Dan Scott
Sergeant Dan Scott is a fictional police detective and sidekick to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
- 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: Sergeant Joe Swanson Target entity description: Sergeant Joe Swanson is a tough, wheelchair-using police officer and Peter Griffin’s close friend on the animated television series "Family Guy."
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A.
Sergeant Joe Bomowski
Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
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B.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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C.
Sergeant Elias Grodin
Sergeant Elias Grodin is a central, idealistic yet battle-weary soldier in the Vietnam War film "Platoon," known for his moral integrity and conflict with the more brutal Sergeant Barnes.
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D.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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E.
Sergeant Dan Scott
Sergeant Dan Scott is a fictional police detective and sidekick to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Family Guy
ⓘ
The Cleveland Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Kevin Swanson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Susie Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriend |
Cleveland Brown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glenn Quagmire NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Griffin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| combatSkill |
firearms proficiency
ⓘ
hand-to-hand combat ⓘ |
| createdBy | Seth MacFarlane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Quahog Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Family Guy universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Family Guy, season 1 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | A Hero Sits Next Door NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Joseph Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasDisability | paraplegia ⓘ |
| hasRunningGag |
intense shouting during action scenes
ⓘ
over-the-top police brutality ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Peter Griffin's friend group ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
deep voice
ⓘ
muscular upper body ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
aggressive
ⓘ
hot-tempered ⓘ loyal ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| rank | sergeant ⓘ |
| residence |
Quahog
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Bonnie Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | wheelchair ⓘ |
| voicedBy | Patrick Warburton 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: Sergeant Joe Swanson Description of subject: Sergeant Joe Swanson is a tough, wheelchair-using police officer and Peter Griffin’s close friend on the animated television series "Family Guy."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.