Specialist Owen Eldridge
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Specialist Owen Eldridge is a young U.S. Army soldier in the film "The Hurt Locker," whose experiences in a bomb disposal unit highlight the psychological strain and moral ambiguity of modern warfare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Specialist Owen Eldridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10514682 — 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: Specialist Owen Eldridge Context triple: [The Hurt Locker, mainCharacter, Specialist Owen Eldridge]
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A.
Dr. Wren
Dr. Wren is a duplicitous scientist and secondary antagonist in the science fiction horror film "Alien: Resurrection," involved in the unethical experiments that bring the xenomorphs back.
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B.
Owen Davian
Owen Davian is the ruthless and highly intelligent arms dealer who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "Mission: Impossible III."
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C.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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D.
Doc Miles
Doc Miles is a shady yet resourceful underground doctor who treats the dangerously overcharged antihero Chev Chelios in the action film "Crank: High Voltage."
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E.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
- 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: Specialist Owen Eldridge Target entity description: Specialist Owen Eldridge is a young U.S. Army soldier in the film "The Hurt Locker," whose experiences in a bomb disposal unit highlight the psychological strain and moral ambiguity of modern warfare.
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A.
Dr. Wren
Dr. Wren is a duplicitous scientist and secondary antagonist in the science fiction horror film "Alien: Resurrection," involved in the unethical experiments that bring the xenomorphs back.
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B.
Owen Davian
Owen Davian is the ruthless and highly intelligent arms dealer who serves as the primary antagonist in the film "Mission: Impossible III."
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C.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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D.
Doc Miles
Doc Miles is a shady yet resourceful underground doctor who treats the dangerously overcharged antihero Chev Chelios in the action film "Crank: High Voltage."
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E.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| ageDescriptor | young ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Hurt Locker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
ethics of warfare
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fear of death ⓘ post-traumatic stress ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
| conflict | Iraq War ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Kathryn Bigelow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Boal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionallyCharacterizedAs |
anxious
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fearful ⓘ traumatized ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Hurt Locker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | war film ⓘ |
| hasComrades |
Sergeant J.T. Sanborn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sergeant William James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to depict psychological strain of modern warfare
ⓘ
to explore moral ambiguity in combat situations ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | Bravo Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brian Geraghty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Specialist ⓘ |
| role | bomb disposal specialist ⓘ |
| setting | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unit | Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2008 ⓘ |
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: Specialist Owen Eldridge Description of subject: Specialist Owen Eldridge is a young U.S. Army soldier in the film "The Hurt Locker," whose experiences in a bomb disposal unit highlight the psychological strain and moral ambiguity of modern warfare.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.