Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie
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Captain Ballard, portrayed by Andrew Airlie, is a recurring authority figure and ship’s captain on the teen comedy series "Breaker High."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13222122 — 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)
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Target entity: Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie Context triple: [Breaker High, characterPortrayedBy, Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie]
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A.
Captain Stanley
Captain Stanley is a central character in the Australian bushranger film "The Proposition," serving as a conflicted lawman trying to impose order in a brutal and lawless frontier.
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
Captain Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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D.
Captain Jonas Grumby
Captain Jonas Grumby is the bumbling but well-meaning Skipper of the S.S. Minnow on the classic American television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
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E.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
- 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: Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie Target entity description: Captain Ballard, portrayed by Andrew Airlie, is a recurring authority figure and ship’s captain on the teen comedy series "Breaker High."
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A.
Captain Stanley
Captain Stanley is a central character in the Australian bushranger film "The Proposition," serving as a conflicted lawman trying to impose order in a brutal and lawless frontier.
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
Captain Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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D.
Captain Jonas Grumby
Captain Jonas Grumby is the bumbling but well-meaning Skipper of the S.S. Minnow on the classic American television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
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E.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ television character ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Breaker High ⓘ |
| citizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1997 ⓘ |
| genre | teen comedy ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | teen comedy ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1998 ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | authority figure ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breaker High
ⓘ
Fifty Shades of Grey ⓘ Reaper ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
ship captain ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
UPN
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YTV ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Andrew Airlie ⓘ |
| portrays | Captain Ballard ⓘ |
| recurringCharacterIn | Breaker High ⓘ |
| roleIn | Breaker High ⓘ |
| setting | high school on a cruise ship ⓘ |
| stars |
Jermaine Williams
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Kyle Alisharan ⓘ Rachel Wilson ⓘ Ryan Gosling ⓘ Terri Conn ⓘ Tyler Labine ⓘ Wendi Kenya ⓘ |
| worksOn | school ship ⓘ |
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: Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie Description of subject: Captain Ballard, portrayed by Andrew Airlie, is a recurring authority figure and ship’s captain on the teen comedy series "Breaker High."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.