Lieutenant French
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Lieutenant French is a police officer character in Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novel "The Little Sister," representing official law enforcement amid the story’s hardboiled investigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant French canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17101288 — 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: Lieutenant French Context triple: [The Little Sister, hasCharacter, Lieutenant French]
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A.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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B.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Lieutenant Carpenter
Lieutenant Carpenter is a bumbling, sycophantic junior officer and frequent comic foil to Captain Binghamton on the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy."
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D.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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E.
Lieutenant Graham
Lieutenant Graham is a supporting military officer character in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee," serving under the title character in the Union Army.
- 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: Lieutenant French Target entity description: Lieutenant French is a police officer character in Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novel "The Little Sister," representing official law enforcement amid the story’s hardboiled investigation.
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A.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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B.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Lieutenant Carpenter
Lieutenant Carpenter is a bumbling, sycophantic junior officer and frequent comic foil to Captain Binghamton on the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy."
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D.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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E.
Lieutenant Graham
Lieutenant Graham is a supporting military officer character in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee," serving under the title character in the Union Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.