Patrol
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"Patrol" is a 1927 war novel by Philip MacDonald, best known for its tense portrayal of a stranded British patrol during World War I and for inspiring several film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10695039 — 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: Patrol Context triple: [Philip MacDonald, notableWork, Patrol]
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A.
American Patrol
"American Patrol" is a popular swing-era instrumental piece best known through Glenn Miller's famous big band arrangement.
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Main Force Patrol
The Main Force Patrol is a fictional Australian highway police unit in the Mad Max film series, tasked with maintaining law and order in a collapsing, dystopian society.
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AIM Patrol
AIM Patrol was a community-based street patrol program organized by the American Indian Movement to protect and support Native people, particularly in urban areas facing police brutality and discrimination.
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D.
Poliça
Poliça is an American synth-pop and alternative R&B band from Minneapolis known for its atmospheric production, heavy use of vocal effects, and emotionally charged songwriting.
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E.
On Guard
On Guard is a popular-level Christian apologetics book by philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig that presents arguments for the rationality of the Christian faith.
- 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: Patrol Target entity description: "Patrol" is a 1927 war novel by Philip MacDonald, best known for its tense portrayal of a stranded British patrol during World War I and for inspiring several film adaptations.
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A.
American Patrol
"American Patrol" is a popular swing-era instrumental piece best known through Glenn Miller's famous big band arrangement.
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B.
Main Force Patrol
The Main Force Patrol is a fictional Australian highway police unit in the Mad Max film series, tasked with maintaining law and order in a collapsing, dystopian society.
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C.
AIM Patrol
AIM Patrol was a community-based street patrol program organized by the American Indian Movement to protect and support Native people, particularly in urban areas facing police brutality and discrimination.
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D.
Poliça
Poliça is an American synth-pop and alternative R&B band from Minneapolis known for its atmospheric production, heavy use of vocal effects, and emotionally charged songwriting.
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E.
On Guard
On Guard is a popular-level Christian apologetics book by philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig that presents arguments for the rationality of the Christian faith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Lost Patrol (1934 film)
NERFINISHED
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Patrouille de nuit (French adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Patrol (1929 British film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Patrol (1934 American film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Philip MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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war fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| inspired | film adaptations ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject | British army patrol ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | psychological tension ⓘ |
| notableFor | tense portrayal of a stranded British patrol ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| publisher | British publisher (unspecified) ⓘ |
| setting | First World War desert front ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Patrol Description of subject: "Patrol" is a 1927 war novel by Philip MacDonald, best known for its tense portrayal of a stranded British patrol during World War I and for inspiring several film adaptations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.