Sheriff Titus Semple
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Sheriff Titus Semple is the corrupt, manipulative lawman who serves as the primary antagonist in the drama series "Flamingo Road."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheriff Titus Semple canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8771352 — 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: Sheriff Titus Semple Context triple: [Flamingo Road, featuresCharacter, Sheriff Titus Semple]
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A.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
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B.
Sheriff George Bannerman
Sheriff George Bannerman is a fictional lawman from Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," known for working with psychic Johnny Smith to investigate a series of murders.
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C.
Sheriff Calder
Sheriff Calder is the principled small-town lawman portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1966 drama film "The Chase," known for trying to maintain order amid escalating violence and corruption.
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D.
Sheriff Will Teasle
Sheriff Will Teasle is the small-town lawman and primary antagonist in "First Blood," whose escalating conflict with John Rambo drives the film’s central drama.
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E.
Sheriff John T. Chance
Sheriff John T. Chance is the steadfast, principled lawman portrayed by John Wayne who defends a small town against outlaws in the classic Western film "Rio Bravo."
- 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: Sheriff Titus Semple Target entity description: Sheriff Titus Semple is the corrupt, manipulative lawman who serves as the primary antagonist in the drama series "Flamingo Road."
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A.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
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B.
Sheriff George Bannerman
Sheriff George Bannerman is a fictional lawman from Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," known for working with psychic Johnny Smith to investigate a series of murders.
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C.
Sheriff Calder
Sheriff Calder is the principled small-town lawman portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1966 drama film "The Chase," known for trying to maintain order amid escalating violence and corruption.
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D.
Sheriff Will Teasle
Sheriff Will Teasle is the small-town lawman and primary antagonist in "First Blood," whose escalating conflict with John Rambo drives the film’s central drama.
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E.
Sheriff John T. Chance
Sheriff John T. Chance is the steadfast, principled lawman portrayed by John Wayne who defends a small town against outlaws in the classic Western film "Rio Bravo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| antagonistTo |
Constance Weldon Carlyle
ⓘ
Fielding Carlyle ⓘ Lane Ballou ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Flamingo Road (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Flamingo Road (novel)
|
| basedOn | character from Flamingo Road (1949 film) ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | NBC ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
controlling
ⓘ
corrupt ⓘ manipulative ⓘ power-hungry ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| controls |
law enforcement in Truro
ⓘ
local politics in Truro ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
L. J. Davis
ⓘ
Michael Fessier ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Flamingo Road universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Flamingo Road (1980 TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Flamingo Road (novel)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
soap opera ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
maintaining political power
ⓘ
personal gain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abusing power as sheriff
ⓘ
scheming against political rivals ⓘ |
| occupation | sheriff ⓘ |
| partOf | ensemble cast of Flamingo Road ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mark Harmon ⓘ |
| positionHeld | sheriff of Truro ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. Television ⓘ |
| roleIn | Flamingo Road ⓘ |
| setting | fictional town of Truro, Florida ⓘ |
| televisionDebutYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| uses |
corruption
ⓘ
intimidation ⓘ political influence ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
blackmail
ⓘ
bribery ⓘ coercion ⓘ |
| worksIn | Truro, Florida (fictional town) ⓘ |
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: Sheriff Titus Semple Description of subject: Sheriff Titus Semple is the corrupt, manipulative lawman who serves as the primary antagonist in the drama series "Flamingo Road."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.