Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 British naval adventure film, based on C. S. Forester’s novels, that follows the exploits of a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Horatio Hornblower | 1 |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. canonical | 1 |
| Horatio Hornblower | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10082882 — 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: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Context triple: [Terence Morgan, notableWork, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.]
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A.
Henry Hornblower I
Henry Hornblower I was an American businessman and stockbroker who founded the Boston-based investment firm Hornblower & Weeks in the late 19th century.
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B.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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C.
Ripon Hornblower
The Ripon Hornblower is a ceremonial city official who maintains an ancient nightly tradition of blowing a horn at the four corners of Ripon's market square to signal the town's safety.
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D.
Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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E.
Edward Pellew
Edward Pellew was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his daring frigate actions and later service as a senior admiral and peer.
- 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: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Target entity description: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 British naval adventure film, based on C. S. Forester’s novels, that follows the exploits of a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Henry Hornblower I
Henry Hornblower I was an American businessman and stockbroker who founded the Boston-based investment firm Hornblower & Weeks in the late 19th century.
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B.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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C.
Ripon Hornblower
The Ripon Hornblower is a ceremonial city official who maintains an ancient nightly tradition of blowing a horn at the four corners of Ripon's market square to signal the town's safety.
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D.
Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
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E.
Edward Pellew
Edward Pellew was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his daring frigate actions and later service as a senior admiral and peer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Horatio Hornblower novels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | C. S. Forester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Guy Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsOrganization | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Raoul Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| editedBy | Jack Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| follows | exploits of a Royal Navy officer ⓘ |
| format | Technicolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
historical film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterRank | Captain ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Robert Farnon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Central America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ at sea ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
duty and honor
ⓘ
leadership at sea ⓘ naval warfare ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Horatio Hornblower adaptations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jerry Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1951 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s films ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Edmund H. North
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Twist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Gregory Peck
NERFINISHED
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James Robertson Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ Terence Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Description of subject: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 British naval adventure film, based on C. S. Forester’s novels, that follows the exploits of a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Captain Horatio Hornblower
this entity surface form:
Horatio Hornblower