Bill Django
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Bill Django is a fictional U.S. Army officer and founder of a secret psychic military unit in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Django canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394958 — 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: Bill Django Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Bill Django]
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A.
Tom Dyas
Tom Dyas is a Canadian municipal politician serving as the mayor of Kelowna, British Columbia.
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B.
Bleek Gilliam
Bleek Gilliam is the talented but emotionally conflicted jazz trumpeter and bandleader portrayed by Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s film "Mo’ Better Blues."
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C.
Douglass Biggs
Douglass Biggs was a film editor active in early Hollywood, known for his work on major productions such as the 1930 aviation epic "Hell's Angels."
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D.
Rick Dickson
Rick Dickson is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Tulsa.
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E.
Dick York
Dick York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the television series "Bewitched" and for his work in films and radio.
- 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: Bill Django Target entity description: Bill Django is a fictional U.S. Army officer and founder of a secret psychic military unit in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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A.
Tom Dyas
Tom Dyas is a Canadian municipal politician serving as the mayor of Kelowna, British Columbia.
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B.
Bleek Gilliam
Bleek Gilliam is the talented but emotionally conflicted jazz trumpeter and bandleader portrayed by Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s film "Mo’ Better Blues."
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C.
Douglass Biggs
Douglass Biggs was a film editor active in early Hollywood, known for his work on major productions such as the 1930 aviation epic "Hell's Angels."
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D.
Rick Dickson
Rick Dickson is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at the University of Tulsa.
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E.
Dick York
Dick York was an American actor best known for originating the role of Darrin Stephens on the television series "Bewitched" and for his work in films and radio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| allegiance | New Earth Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Men Who Stare at Goats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jim Channon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
eccentric
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ pacifist-leaning ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Jon Ronson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Men Who Stare at Goats universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWorkAppearsIn | Grant Heslov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmWriterOfWorkAppearsIn | Peter Straughan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | war comedy ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | First Earth Battalion concept NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | mentor figure to psychic soldiers ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing a New Age-inspired military program ⓘ |
| occupation |
U.S. Army officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jeff Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | founder of a secret psychic military unit ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Cold War era U.S. military NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
New Age practices
ⓘ
psychic abilities ⓘ |
| workTypeAppearsIn | satirical war film ⓘ |
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: Bill Django Description of subject: Bill Django is a fictional U.S. Army officer and founder of a secret psychic military unit in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.