Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
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Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is a cultured, aristocratic and highly skilled surgeon on the television series M*A*S*H, known for his snobbish demeanor and complex moral depth.
All labels observed (1)
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| Major Charles Emerson Winchester III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14152602 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Major Charles Emerson Winchester III Context triple: [David Ogden Stiers, characterPortrayed, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III]
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Edwin Foster Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer known for his observations of comets and nebulae in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Major Henry Douglas Warden
Major Henry Douglas Warden was a 19th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the city of Bloemfontein in present-day South Africa.
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C.
Major William Campbell
Major William Campbell was a British military officer known for overseeing the construction and command of frontier fortifications in North America during the late 18th century.
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D.
Major William Barker
Major William Barker was a highly decorated Canadian First World War flying ace renowned for his extraordinary aerial combat achievements and bravery.
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E.
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Charles Emerson Winchester III Target entity description: Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is a cultured, aristocratic and highly skilled surgeon on the television series M*A*S*H, known for his snobbish demeanor and complex moral depth.
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A.
Edwin Foster Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer known for his observations of comets and nebulae in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Major Henry Douglas Warden
Major Henry Douglas Warden was a 19th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the city of Bloemfontein in present-day South Africa.
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C.
Major William Campbell
Major William Campbell was a British military officer known for overseeing the construction and command of frontier fortifications in North America during the late 18th century.
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D.
Major William Barker
Major William Barker was a highly decorated Canadian First World War flying ace renowned for his extraordinary aerial combat achievements and bravery.
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E.
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
- F. None of above. chosen
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