Deputy Stuart Kofer
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Deputy Stuart Kofer is a central, abusive small-town lawman whose violent actions and subsequent shooting drive the legal and moral conflicts in John Grisham’s novel *A Time for Mercy*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deputy Stuart Kofer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10211608 — 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: Deputy Stuart Kofer Context triple: [A Time for Mercy, featuresCharacter, Deputy Stuart Kofer]
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A.
Officer Ray Hechler
Officer Ray Hechler is a fictional law enforcement officer featured as a character in the television series "Boomtown."
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B.
Michael O’Keefe
Michael O’Keefe is an American actor best known for his role as young caddie Danny Noonan in the classic comedy film "Caddyshack."
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
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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E.
Deputy Jackson Lamb
Deputy Jackson Lamb is a small-town lawman in the science-fiction film "Super 8," known for his gruff demeanor, protective nature, and central role in uncovering the mysterious events affecting his community.
- 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: Deputy Stuart Kofer Target entity description: Deputy Stuart Kofer is a central, abusive small-town lawman whose violent actions and subsequent shooting drive the legal and moral conflicts in John Grisham’s novel *A Time for Mercy*.
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A.
Officer Ray Hechler
Officer Ray Hechler is a fictional law enforcement officer featured as a character in the television series "Boomtown."
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B.
Michael O’Keefe
Michael O’Keefe is an American actor best known for his role as young caddie Danny Noonan in the classic comedy film "Caddyshack."
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
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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E.
Deputy Jackson Lamb
Deputy Jackson Lamb is a small-town lawman in the science-fiction film "Super 8," known for his gruff demeanor, protective nature, and central role in uncovering the mysterious events affecting his community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abusive law enforcement officer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ sheriff's deputy ⓘ |
| abuses |
Josie
ⓘ
Josie’s children ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Time for Mercy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
abuse of power
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domestic violence ⓘ police misconduct ⓘ small-town justice ⓘ |
| causeOf |
legal conflict in A Time for Mercy
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moral conflict in A Time for Mercy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
alcoholic
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controlling ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | John Grisham ⓘ |
| drivesPlotOf | A Time for Mercy ⓘ |
| employer |
Ford County Sheriff's Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford County Sheriff’s Office
|
| fictionalLocation | Ford County, Mississippi ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalStatusInStory | shooting victim in criminal case ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonist ⓘ |
| notableEvent | is shot by Drew Gamble ⓘ |
| occupation | deputy sheriff ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Jake Brigance ⓘ |
| relationship | boyfriend of Josie ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in A Time for Mercy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | late 1980s ⓘ |
| victimOf | shooting by Drew Gamble ⓘ |
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: Deputy Stuart Kofer Description of subject: Deputy Stuart Kofer is a central, abusive small-town lawman whose violent actions and subsequent shooting drive the legal and moral conflicts in John Grisham’s novel *A Time for Mercy*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.