Nathaniel Fick
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Nathaniel Fick is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and author best known for his memoir "One Bullet Away" and for being the real-life platoon commander depicted in the book and miniseries "Generation Kill."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathaniel Fick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394701 — 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: Nathaniel Fick Context triple: [Generation Kill, portraysRealPerson, Nathaniel Fick]
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A.
Christopher Fettes
Christopher Fettes is a theatre educator and director best known as the co-founder of Drama Centre London, an influential British drama school.
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B.
Jack Heuer
Jack Heuer is a Swiss watchmaker and former head of TAG Heuer, best known for modernizing the brand and creating iconic chronograph designs.
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C.
Blaine Manning
Blaine Manning is a former Canadian professional lacrosse forward best known as a star player and multiple-time NLL champion with the Toronto Rock.
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D.
Bryan Mills
Bryan Mills is the highly skilled former CIA operative and fiercely protective father portrayed by Liam Neeson in the Taken film series.
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E.
Jonathan Farrington
Jonathan Farrington is known primarily as the son of Suzanne Farrington, who was the only child of acclaimed English actress Vivien Leigh.
- 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: Nathaniel Fick Target entity description: Nathaniel Fick is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and author best known for his memoir "One Bullet Away" and for being the real-life platoon commander depicted in the book and miniseries "Generation Kill."
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A.
Christopher Fettes
Christopher Fettes is a theatre educator and director best known as the co-founder of Drama Centre London, an influential British drama school.
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B.
Jack Heuer
Jack Heuer is a Swiss watchmaker and former head of TAG Heuer, best known for modernizing the brand and creating iconic chronograph designs.
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C.
Blaine Manning
Blaine Manning is a former Canadian professional lacrosse forward best known as a star player and multiple-time NLL champion with the Toronto Rock.
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D.
Bryan Mills
Bryan Mills is the highly skilled former CIA operative and fiercely protective father portrayed by Liam Neeson in the Taken film series.
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E.
Jonathan Farrington
Jonathan Farrington is known primarily as the son of Suzanne Farrington, who was the only child of acclaimed English actress Vivien Leigh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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military officer ⓘ |
| alumniOf |
Dartmouth College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvard Business School NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvard Kennedy School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Rhodes Scholarship finalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård in Generation Kill ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Center for a New American Security NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict |
Iraq War
ⓘ
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ
surface form:
War in Afghanistan
|
| countryOfService | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
book Generation Kill
ⓘ
television miniseries Generation Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Dartmouth College
ⓘ
Harvard Business School ⓘ Harvard Kennedy School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Center for a New American Security
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Endgame, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of State ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cybersecurity
ⓘ
foreign policy ⓘ national security ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Nathaniel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | platoon commander ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 1st Reconnaissance Battalion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nathaniel Fick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the real-life platoon commander depicted in Generation Kill
ⓘ
memoir One Bullet Away NERFINISHED ⓘ service as a U.S. Marine Corps officer ⓘ |
| notableWork | One Bullet Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Endgame, Inc.
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Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security ⓘ United States Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| wrote | One Bullet Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nathaniel Fick Description of subject: Nathaniel Fick is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and author best known for his memoir "One Bullet Away" and for being the real-life platoon commander depicted in the book and miniseries "Generation Kill."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Generation Kill