Sergeant Gerry Boyle
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant Gerry Boyle canonical | 2 |
| Sergeant Gerry Boyle – Brendan Gleeson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5788475 — 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 Gerry Boyle Context triple: [Brendan Gleeson, playedCharacter, Sergeant Gerry Boyle]
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A.
Sergeant J.J. Sefton
Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
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B.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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C.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
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D.
Sergeant Ben Jones
Sergeant Ben Jones is a fictional police detective and sidekick character in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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E.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
- 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 Gerry Boyle Target entity description: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."
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A.
Sergeant J.J. Sefton
Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
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B.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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C.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
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D.
Sergeant Ben Jones
Sergeant Ben Jones is a fictional police detective and sidekick character in the long-running British crime drama series "Midsomer Murders."
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E.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| allyOf | Agent Wendell Everett ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguageVersion |
The Guard (English-language film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Guard
|
| caresAbout | his elderly mother ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Guard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Michael McDonagh ⓘ |
| employer | Garda Síochána ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | buddy cop film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
crime film
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasColleague | Agent Wendell Everett ⓘ |
| hasVice |
drinking
ⓘ
soliciting prostitutes ⓘ |
| hasWorldview |
nihilistic
ⓘ
skeptical of authority ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | antihero ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
comic relief
ⓘ
investigator of central crime ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blunt honesty
ⓘ
unconventional policing methods ⓘ witty one-liners ⓘ |
| occupation |
Garda sergeant
ⓘ
police sergeant ⓘ |
| opponentOf |
drug traffickers
ⓘ
international drug smuggling ring ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cynical
ⓘ
irreverent ⓘ morally ambiguous ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ sharp-witted ⓘ unorthodox ⓘ world-weary ⓘ |
| policeRank | sergeant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brendan Gleeson ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Galway ⓘ |
| usesHumorStyle |
dark humor
ⓘ
deadpan ⓘ |
| workLocation |
rural County Galway
ⓘ
small-town Ireland ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sergeant Gerry Boyle Description of subject: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sergeant Gerry Boyle