Oswald State Correctional Facility
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Oswald State Correctional Facility is the fictional maximum-security prison that serves as the primary setting for the HBO television series "Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oswald State Correctional Facility canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4505344 — 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: Oswald State Correctional Facility Context triple: [Oz, setting, Oswald State Correctional Facility]
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A.
Holman Correctional Facility
Holman Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Alabama known for housing the state's death row and execution chamber.
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B.
Mill Creek Correctional Facility
Mill Creek Correctional Facility is a minimum-security state prison in Salem, Oregon, that houses adult male inmates and focuses on work and rehabilitation programs.
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C.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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D.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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E.
Umstead Correctional Institution
Umstead Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility located in Butner, North Carolina.
- 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: Oswald State Correctional Facility Target entity description: Oswald State Correctional Facility is the fictional maximum-security prison that serves as the primary setting for the HBO television series "Oz."
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A.
Holman Correctional Facility
Holman Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Alabama known for housing the state's death row and execution chamber.
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B.
Mill Creek Correctional Facility
Mill Creek Correctional Facility is a minimum-security state prison in Salem, Oregon, that houses adult male inmates and focuses on work and rehabilitation programs.
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C.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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D.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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E.
Umstead Correctional Institution
Umstead Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility located in Butner, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional prison ⓘ television setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
HBO television series Oz
ⓘ
linked to:
TV series "Oz"
Oz ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdForSeriesBy | Tom Fontana ⓘ |
| depictedAs | state-run correctional facility ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | nonexistent in real world ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Oz season 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| genreContext |
crime drama
ⓘ
prison drama ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | Oswald State ⓘ |
| hasFacilityFeature |
cafeteria
ⓘ
cell blocks ⓘ chapel ⓘ death row ⓘ gym ⓘ infirmary ⓘ solitary confinement ⓘ visitation room ⓘ |
| hasInmateGroup |
African-American inmates
ⓘ
Aryan Brotherhood ⓘ
linked to:
Aryan Brotherhood (Oz)
Irish-American inmates ⓘ Italian-American inmates ⓘ Latino inmates ⓘ Muslim inmates ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
drug rehabilitation program
ⓘ
education program ⓘ work program ⓘ |
| hasStaffRole |
correctional officer
ⓘ
warden ⓘ |
| hasUnit | Emerald City ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
power struggles ⓘ racial tension ⓘ redemption ⓘ violence in prison ⓘ |
| network | HBO ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Oz franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Oz
|
| primarySettingOf | Oz ⓘ |
| securityLevel | maximum security ⓘ |
| shortName | Oz ⓘ |
| stateInFiction | New York ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Oswald State Correctional Facility Description of subject: Oswald State Correctional Facility is the fictional maximum-security prison that serves as the primary setting for the HBO television series "Oz."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
TV series "Oz"
subject linked to:
Augustus Hill in Oz
subject linked to:
Augustus Hill in Oz