Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney
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Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney refers to the actor’s portrayal of a cowardly and indecisive U.S. Army captain in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810774 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney Context triple: [Attack!, portrayedBy, Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney]
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James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett
James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett is the tough, fast-talking World War I veteran turned Prohibition-era bootlegger and gangster he portrays in the classic crime film "The Roaring Twenties."
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B.
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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C.
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle is the tough, straight-arrow police detective whose marriage to Barbara Stanwyck’s character becomes the emotional and moral battleground in the 1956 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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D.
Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe is the tough but easygoing trucker and bare-knuckle brawler, often accompanied by his pet orangutan Clyde, in the comedic action films of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady
Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady is the acclaimed portrayal of a fiery, populist prosecutor modeled on William Jennings Bryan in the 1960 film adaptation of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial drama Inherit the Wind.
- 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: Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney Target entity description: Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney refers to the actor’s portrayal of a cowardly and indecisive U.S. Army captain in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
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A.
James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett
James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett is the tough, fast-talking World War I veteran turned Prohibition-era bootlegger and gangster he portrays in the classic crime film "The Roaring Twenties."
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B.
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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C.
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle is the tough, straight-arrow police detective whose marriage to Barbara Stanwyck’s character becomes the emotional and moral battleground in the 1956 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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D.
Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe
Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe is the tough but easygoing trucker and bare-knuckle brawler, often accompanied by his pet orangutan Clyde, in the comedic action films of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady
Fredric March as Matthew Harrison Brady is the acclaimed portrayal of a fiery, populist prosecutor modeled on William Jennings Bryan in the 1960 film adaptation of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial drama Inherit the Wind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
acting performance
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film character portrayal ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Attack! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Attack (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Norman Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cowardly
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indecisive ⓘ |
| conflictDepicted | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarsWith |
Jack Palance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lee Marvin NERFINISHED ⓘ William Smithers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmProduction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedBy | Robert Aldrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| genre |
World War II film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| languageOfFilm | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranchOfCharacter | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonistic officer ⓘ |
| nationalityOfCharacter | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedBy | Eddie Albert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Captain Erskine Cooney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | The Associates and Aldrich Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankOfCharacter | Captain ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacterActions | European Theater of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
conflict between officers and enlisted men
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cowardice under fire ⓘ military incompetence ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmRelease | 1956 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney Description of subject: Eddie Albert as Capt. Erskine Cooney refers to the actor’s portrayal of a cowardly and indecisive U.S. Army captain in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
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