Private Benjamin
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Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered woman who impulsively joins the U.S. Army and struggles to adapt to military life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Private Benjamin canonical | 8 |
| Private Benjamin (TV series pilot concept shared) | 1 |
| Private Benjamin (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2861204 — 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: Private Benjamin Context triple: [Albert Brooks, actedIn, Private Benjamin]
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A.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
A Soldier Reports
A Soldier Reports is the memoir of U.S. General William Westmoreland, offering his personal account and defense of his leadership during the Vietnam War.
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D.
Private Victory
Private Victory is the part of Stephen R. Covey’s framework that focuses on developing personal effectiveness and self-mastery through habits of independence before addressing relationships with others.
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E.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
- 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: Private Benjamin Target entity description: Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered woman who impulsively joins the U.S. Army and struggles to adapt to military life.
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A.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
A Soldier Reports
A Soldier Reports is the memoir of U.S. General William Westmoreland, offering his personal account and defense of his leadership during the Vietnam War.
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D.
Private Victory
Private Victory is the part of Stephen R. Covey’s framework that focuses on developing personal effectiveness and self-mastery through habits of independence before addressing relationships with others.
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E.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Private Benjamin Description of subject: Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered woman who impulsively joins the U.S. Army and struggles to adapt to military life.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Private Benjamin (TV series pilot concept shared)
this entity surface form:
Private Benjamin (TV series)