Captain Nelson
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Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Nelson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4763852 — 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: Captain Nelson Context triple: [Objective, Burma!, leadCharacter, Captain Nelson]
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A.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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E.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack is the charismatic, time-traveling former Time Agent and leader of Torchwood from the Doctor Who universe.
- 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: Captain Nelson Target entity description: Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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A.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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E.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack is the charismatic, time-traveling former Time Agent and leader of Torchwood from the Doctor Who universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Objective, Burma! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandRole | unit commander ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkAppearedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyForces | Imperial Japanese Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Objective, Burma! universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
World War II film
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war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| leadershipRole | leader of paratroop team ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | cinema ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| militaryUnitType | paratroop unit ⓘ |
| missionType | parachute assault mission ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | film ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Burma Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Allies ⓘ |
| specialization | paratrooper ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalActivity | 1940s ⓘ |
| workType | war film character ⓘ |
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: Captain Nelson Description of subject: Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.