Jerry Wooters
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Jerry Wooters is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant portrayed as a key member of the elite "Gangster Squad" unit formed to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen in the film Gangster Squad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Wooters canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333220 — 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: Jerry Wooters Context triple: [Gangster Squad, mainCharacter, Jerry Wooters]
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A.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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B.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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C.
Wendell McCain
Wendell McCain is known as a son of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement.
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D.
Milton Moore
Milton Moore was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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E.
Thad Luckinbill
Thad Luckinbill is an American actor and film producer known for roles on "The Young and the Restless" and for producing acclaimed films such as "Sicario."
- 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: Jerry Wooters Target entity description: Jerry Wooters is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant portrayed as a key member of the elite "Gangster Squad" unit formed to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen in the film Gangster Squad.
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A.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
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B.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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C.
Wendell McCain
Wendell McCain is known as a son of civil rights activist Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement.
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D.
Milton Moore
Milton Moore was a cinematographer active during the silent film era, known for his work on early American cinema.
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E.
Thad Luckinbill
Thad Luckinbill is an American actor and film producer known for roles on "The Young and the Restless" and for producing acclaimed films such as "Sicario."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2013 film Gangster Squad
ⓘ
linked to:
Gangster Squad
|
| basedOn |
real-life LAPD officer Jerry Wooters
ⓘ
linked to:
LAPD officer Rafael Pérez
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| conflictWith | Mickey Cohen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Gangster Squad (film universe)
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linked to:
elite LAPD unit Gangster Squad
|
| genre | crime film character ⓘ |
| goal | take down mob boss Mickey Cohen ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Gangster Squad
ⓘ
linked to:
Tales from the Gangster Squad
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| narrativeFunction | law enforcement hero ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | police sergeant ⓘ |
| opposes | organized crime in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| partOf | elite LAPD unit Gangster Squad ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | key member of elite police unit ⓘ |
| positionHeld | sergeant ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Gangster Squad (film)
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linked to:
Gangster Squad
|
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1950s
ⓘ
late 1940s ⓘ |
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: Jerry Wooters Description of subject: Jerry Wooters is a fictional Los Angeles police sergeant portrayed as a key member of the elite "Gangster Squad" unit formed to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen in the film Gangster Squad.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.