Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
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Curtis "Lem" Lemansky is a loyal but morally conflicted member of the Strike Team on the television series "The Shield," known for his strong conscience and tragic fate.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curtis Lemansky | 8 |
| Curtis "Lem" Lemansky canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13257977 — 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: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky Context triple: [Farmington Division, associatedWithCharacter, Curtis "Lem" Lemansky]
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A.
Johnny Lujack
Johnny Lujack was a star quarterback for Notre Dame in the 1940s who became one of college football’s early legendary Heisman Trophy winners.
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B.
Bert Wysocki
Bert Wysocki, often nicknamed "Sock," is a fictional character known as the humorous and loyal best friend of the protagonist in the television series "Reaper."
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C.
Gus Leonard
Gus Leonard was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies and short films.
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D.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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E.
Lew Cirne
Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
- 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: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky Target entity description: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky is a loyal but morally conflicted member of the Strike Team on the television series "The Shield," known for his strong conscience and tragic fate.
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A.
Johnny Lujack
Johnny Lujack was a star quarterback for Notre Dame in the 1940s who became one of college football’s early legendary Heisman Trophy winners.
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B.
Bert Wysocki
Bert Wysocki, often nicknamed "Sock," is a fictional character known as the humorous and loyal best friend of the protagonist in the television series "Reaper."
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C.
Gus Leonard
Gus Leonard was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies and short films.
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D.
Frank Palko
Frank Palko was the criminal defendant at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Palko v. Connecticut, which shaped the doctrine of selective incorporation of Bill of Rights protections to the states.
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E.
Lew Cirne
Lew Cirne is a software entrepreneur and technologist best known as the founder of New Relic and a pioneer in application performance monitoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky Description of subject: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky is a loyal but morally conflicted member of the Strike Team on the television series "The Shield," known for his strong conscience and tragic fate.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
subject linked to:
FX network series The Shield
subject linked to:
Detective Ronnie Gardocki
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky
linked to: Curtis "Lem" Lemansky