Constable Kevin Goody
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Constable Kevin Goody is a naive and well-meaning but often inept police officer from the British sitcom "The Thin Blue Line," known for his childlike innocence and comedic blunders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Constable Kevin Goody canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8179783 — 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: Constable Kevin Goody Context triple: [The Thin Blue Line, character, Constable Kevin Goody]
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A.
Constable James McDonnell
Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
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B.
Officer Doug Penhall
Officer Doug Penhall is a lovable, wisecracking undercover cop known for his loyalty and comic relief on the TV series "21 Jump Street."
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C.
Constable Patrick O’Connell
Constable Patrick O’Connell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer who became historically notable as one of the first policemen killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush at the outset of the Irish War of Independence.
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D.
Officer Bill Gannon
Officer Bill Gannon is a fictional Los Angeles police officer and Joe Friday’s partner on the television series "Dragnet," portrayed by actor Harry Morgan.
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E.
Det. Jeff Ward
Det. Jeff Ward is a fictional New York City police detective featured as a character in the television series "N.Y.P.D."
- 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: Constable Kevin Goody Target entity description: Constable Kevin Goody is a naive and well-meaning but often inept police officer from the British sitcom "The Thin Blue Line," known for his childlike innocence and comedic blunders.
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A.
Constable James McDonnell
Constable James McDonnell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer notable for being one of the first policemen killed in the Irish War of Independence during the Soloheadbeg ambush in 1919.
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B.
Officer Doug Penhall
Officer Doug Penhall is a lovable, wisecracking undercover cop known for his loyalty and comic relief on the TV series "21 Jump Street."
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C.
Constable Patrick O’Connell
Constable Patrick O’Connell was a Royal Irish Constabulary officer who became historically notable as one of the first policemen killed in the Soloheadbeg ambush at the outset of the Irish War of Independence.
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D.
Officer Bill Gannon
Officer Bill Gannon is a fictional Los Angeles police officer and Joe Friday’s partner on the television series "Dragnet," portrayed by actor Harry Morgan.
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E.
Det. Jeff Ward
Det. Jeff Ward is a fictional New York City police detective featured as a character in the television series "N.Y.P.D."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Thin Blue Line ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Thin Blue Line (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Thin Blue Line
|
| characterTrait |
childlike innocence
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inept ⓘ naive ⓘ well-meaning ⓘ |
| colleagueInFiction |
Constable Maggie Habib
ⓘ
Detective Inspector Derek Grim ⓘ Sergeant Patricia Dawkins ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfFictionalWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorOfCharacter | Ben Elton ⓘ |
| employerInFiction | Gasforth Police Station ⓘ |
| fictionalProfessionRank | constable ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Thin Blue Line ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastNetworkOfWork | BBC ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | British sitcom ⓘ |
| humourStyleAssociated |
character-based comedy
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slapstick ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | comic relief ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
childlike behaviour
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comedic blunders ⓘ |
| occupation |
police constable
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police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Dreyfus ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | sitcom ⓘ |
| worksUnderInFiction | Inspector Raymond Fowler ⓘ |
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: Constable Kevin Goody Description of subject: Constable Kevin Goody is a naive and well-meaning but often inept police officer from the British sitcom "The Thin Blue Line," known for his childlike innocence and comedic blunders.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.