Commander James Ferraday
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Commander James Ferraday is the fictional U.S. Navy submarine captain who leads a perilous Arctic rescue and espionage mission in the Cold War thriller "Ice Station Zebra."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Commander James Ferraday canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13236276 — 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: Commander James Ferraday Context triple: [Ice Station Zebra, mainCharacter, Commander James Ferraday]
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A.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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B.
Commander Nathaniel Taylor
Commander Nathaniel Taylor is the tough, pragmatic military leader of the prehistoric colony in the science fiction television series "Terra Nova."
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C.
Commander Russell Taylor
Commander Russell Taylor is a fictional high-ranking LAPD officer and division commander portrayed by Robert Gossett on the television series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes."
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D.
Commander Robert Ryder
Commander Robert Ryder was a Royal Navy officer best known for leading the daring 1942 St Nazaire Raid during the Second World War.
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E.
Captain Jacob Keyes
Captain Jacob Keyes is a respected and strategic UNSC Navy officer in the Halo series, known for his leadership during humanity’s war against the Covenant and his pivotal role in the events surrounding the first Halo ring.
- 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: Commander James Ferraday Target entity description: Commander James Ferraday is the fictional U.S. Navy submarine captain who leads a perilous Arctic rescue and espionage mission in the Cold War thriller "Ice Station Zebra."
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A.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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B.
Commander Nathaniel Taylor
Commander Nathaniel Taylor is the tough, pragmatic military leader of the prehistoric colony in the science fiction television series "Terra Nova."
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C.
Commander Russell Taylor
Commander Russell Taylor is a fictional high-ranking LAPD officer and division commander portrayed by Robert Gossett on the television series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes."
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D.
Commander Robert Ryder
Commander Robert Ryder was a Royal Navy officer best known for leading the daring 1942 St Nazaire Raid during the Second World War.
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E.
Captain Jacob Keyes
Captain Jacob Keyes is a respected and strategic UNSC Navy officer in the Halo series, known for his leadership during humanity’s war against the Covenant and his pivotal role in the events surrounding the first Halo ring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ice Station Zebra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character in Alistair MacLean novel "Ice Station Zebra" ⓘ |
| commands | USS Tigerfish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkAppearsIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Ice Station Zebra universe ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | Cold War thriller ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Soviet–U.S. intelligence confrontation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | film adaptation of "Ice Station Zebra" ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| missionType |
Arctic rescue mission
ⓘ
espionage mission ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
calm under pressure
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professionalism ⓘ tactically cautious ⓘ |
| occupation |
U.S. Navy officer
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submarine captain ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Rock Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
reach Ice Station Zebra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rescue station personnel ⓘ |
| rank | Commander ⓘ |
| roleInStory | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Arctic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| vesselTypeCommanded | nuclear submarine ⓘ |
| workTypeAppearsIn | film ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmAppearance | 1968 ⓘ |
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: Commander James Ferraday Description of subject: Commander James Ferraday is the fictional U.S. Navy submarine captain who leads a perilous Arctic rescue and espionage mission in the Cold War thriller "Ice Station Zebra."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.