Captain Clarence Oveur
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Captain Clarence Oveur is a bumbling airline pilot and central comedic figure in the 1980 parody film "Airplane!"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Clarence Oveur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135341 — 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 Clarence Oveur Context triple: [Airplane!, mainCharacter, Captain Clarence Oveur]
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A.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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B.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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E.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
- 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 Clarence Oveur Target entity description: Captain Clarence Oveur is a bumbling airline pilot and central comedic figure in the 1980 parody film "Airplane!"
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A.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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B.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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C.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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D.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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E.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airline pilot
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| aircraftFlownInFiction | Boeing 707 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airlineEmployerInFiction | Trans American Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Airplane! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy film
ⓘ
disaster film parody ⓘ |
| appearsInSequel | Airplane II: The Sequel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnGenreTradition | 1970s airline disaster movie captains ⓘ |
| characterStatus | survives events of Airplane! ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
David Zucker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerry Zucker NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Abrahams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dialogueStyle | straight-faced delivery of outrageous lines ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Airplane! universe ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | parody film ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle |
parody
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slapstick ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| languageSpokenInFiction | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | source of absurd humor ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deadpan comedic dialogue
ⓘ
inappropriate cockpit conversations with a child passenger ⓘ |
| notableScene | cockpit scenes with young passenger Joey ⓘ |
| occupation | airline pilot ⓘ |
| partOfEnsemble | Airplane! cockpit crew ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Peter Graves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByInSequel | Peter Graves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | central comedic figure ⓘ |
| screenTimeType | supporting character ⓘ |
| sharesScreenWith |
Dr. Rumack
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elaine Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Murdock NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Striker NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Basta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudienceEffect | comic relief ⓘ |
| worksOnRouteInFiction | Los Angeles to Chicago flight ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Clarence Oveur Description of subject: Captain Clarence Oveur is a bumbling airline pilot and central comedic figure in the 1980 parody film "Airplane!"
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.