D'Angelo Barksdale
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D'Angelo Barksdale is a conflicted mid-level drug lieutenant in the Barksdale Organization on the TV series "The Wire," known for his moral doubts about the criminal life he was born into.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| D'Angelo Barksdale canonical | 7 |
| D'Angelo Barksdale (nephew) | 1 |
| D’Angelo Barksdale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8336376 — 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: D'Angelo Barksdale Context triple: [Avon Barksdale, closeAssociate, D'Angelo Barksdale]
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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.
Vic Mackey
Vic Mackey is a ruthless, morally corrupt LAPD detective and the central antihero of the crime drama series "The Shield."
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C.
Marsellus Wallace
Marsellus Wallace is a powerful Los Angeles crime boss in Quentin Tarantino's film "Pulp Fiction," known for his imposing presence and central role in the movie's intersecting storylines.
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D.
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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E.
Earl "Wire" Lindo
Earl "Wire" Lindo was a Jamaican keyboardist and member of Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for his influential contributions to roots reggae music.
- 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: D'Angelo Barksdale Target entity description: D'Angelo Barksdale is a conflicted mid-level drug lieutenant in the Barksdale Organization on the TV series "The Wire," known for his moral doubts about the criminal life he was born into.
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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.
Vic Mackey
Vic Mackey is a ruthless, morally corrupt LAPD detective and the central antihero of the crime drama series "The Shield."
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C.
Marsellus Wallace
Marsellus Wallace is a powerful Los Angeles crime boss in Quentin Tarantino's film "Pulp Fiction," known for his imposing presence and central role in the movie's intersecting storylines.
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D.
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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E.
Earl "Wire" Lindo
Earl "Wire" Lindo was a Jamaican keyboardist and member of Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for his influential contributions to roots reggae music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Barksdale Organization ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Wire ⓘ |
| basedIn | Baltimore ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | strangulation ⓘ |
| closeAssociation |
Bodie Broadus
ⓘ
Wallace ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional setting and production)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| creator | David Simon ⓘ |
| familyName | Barksdale ⓘ |
| fictionalEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Wire universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wire
|
| firstAppearance |
The Wire, Season 1 Episode 1 "The Target"
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wire
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| genre | crime drama character ⓘ |
| givenName | D'Angelo ⓘ |
| imprisonedAt | Maryland state prison (fictional) ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Stringer Bell (indirectly, by ordering the murder)
ⓘ
linked to:
Russell "Stringer" Bell
prison hitman (on Stringer Bell's orders) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lastAppearance |
The Wire, Season 2 Episode 6 "All Prologue"
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linked to:
The Wire
|
| legalStatus | convicted drug dealer ⓘ |
| loyaltyConflictWith |
Avon Barksdale
ⓘ
Stringer Bell ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | murdered ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| moralTurningPoint | reacts strongly to Wallace's death ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | explores moral ambiguity of drug trade ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
ambivalence about violence
ⓘ
moral conflict about criminal life ⓘ sympathy for low-level dealers ⓘ |
| notableScene | chess game explanation of drug hierarchy ⓘ |
| occupation | drug lieutenant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lawrence Gilliard Jr. ⓘ |
| relative |
Avon Barksdale
ⓘ
Brianna Barksdale ⓘ Donette ⓘ Tyrell ⓘ |
| roleInOrganization | mid-level manager ⓘ |
| setting | Baltimore public housing projects ⓘ |
| storyArc |
cooperates partially with law enforcement
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dies in prison ⓘ is imprisoned ⓘ |
| workOfFiction | The Wire ⓘ |
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: D'Angelo Barksdale Description of subject: D'Angelo Barksdale is a conflicted mid-level drug lieutenant in the Barksdale Organization on the TV series "The Wire," known for his moral doubts about the criminal life he was born into.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.