Major William Cage
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Major William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public affairs officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Major William Cage canonical | 7 |
| Tom Cruise as Major William Cage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5751191 — 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: Major William Cage Context triple: [William Cage, fullName, Major William Cage]
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A.
Agent Tom Colby
Agent Tom Colby is a fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who serves as a central protagonist in the crime drama series "The F.B.I."
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B.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Hank Mann
Hank Mann was a prolific silent film comedian and character actor, best known as one of the original Keystone Cops and for his numerous supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is a suave, resourceful American CIA agent who teams up with a KGB counterpart to thwart international threats in the 1960s-set spy adventure "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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E.
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
- 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: Major William Cage Target entity description: Major William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public affairs officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
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A.
Agent Tom Colby
Agent Tom Colby is a fictional Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who serves as a central protagonist in the crime drama series "The F.B.I."
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B.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Hank Mann
Hank Mann was a prolific silent film comedian and character actor, best known as one of the original Keystone Cops and for his numerous supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is a suave, resourceful American CIA agent who teams up with a KGB counterpart to thwart international threats in the 1960s-set spy adventure "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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E.
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway
Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway is a hard-nosed, skeptical police detective who relentlessly pursues the mysterious vigilante created by the magical mask in "The Mask" franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy |
Christopher McQuarrie
NERFINISHED
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Jez Butterworth NERFINISHED ⓘ John-Henry Butterworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliation | United Defense Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ally |
J Squad
NERFINISHED
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Master Sergeant Farell NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Vrataski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Edge of Tomorrow
NERFINISHED
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Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (home media title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Keiji Kiriya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | All You Need Is Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterArc |
cowardly officer becomes skilled frontline soldier
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self-centered survivor becomes self-sacrificing hero ⓘ |
| conflict | Mimic invasion of Earth ⓘ |
| createdBy | Hiroshi Sakurazaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | Doug Liman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy |
Alpha Mimic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mimics ⓘ Omega Mimic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
action
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science fiction ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Edge of Tomorrow (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gainsPowerFrom | Mimic alpha blood ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
defeat the Omega Mimic
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end the time loop ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
retains memories across time loops
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time loop reset upon death ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
dies repeatedly and resets the day
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participates in the Battle of Verdun (future battle) ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
dark humor in face of repeated deaths
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initial inexperience in combat ⓘ rapid learning through repeated timelines ⓘ |
| occupation | military public affairs officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Cruise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship | comrade of Rita Vrataski ⓘ |
| setting | future Europe ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Rita Vrataski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesEquipment | combat exosuit ⓘ |
| usesWeapon |
automatic rifle
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melee weapon ⓘ |
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: Major William Cage Description of subject: Major William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public affairs officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tom Cruise as Major William Cage
subject surface form:
Master Sergeant Farell