Colonel Bowie
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Colonel Bowie is a key character in Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," serving as a seasoned military leader and mentor figure to the young protagonists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Bowie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19583192 — 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: Colonel Bowie Context triple: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Colonel Bowie]
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A.
Colonel Stuart
Colonel Stuart is the ruthless ex-military mastermind who leads the terrorist operation against Dulles International Airport in the action film "Die Hard 2."
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B.
Colonel Butler
Colonel Butler is a fictional military officer character featured in the 1935 film serial "The Fighting Marines."
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C.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
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D.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is a comic, old-fashioned military figure in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," embodying the blustering, out-of-touch attitudes of the older generation.
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E.
Major John Boone
Major John Boone was a 17th-century English colonist and landowner in South Carolina, best known as the original proprietor of the historic Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston.
- 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: Colonel Bowie Target entity description: Colonel Bowie is a key character in Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," serving as a seasoned military leader and mentor figure to the young protagonists.
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A.
Colonel Stuart
Colonel Stuart is the ruthless ex-military mastermind who leads the terrorist operation against Dulles International Airport in the action film "Die Hard 2."
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B.
Colonel Butler
Colonel Butler is a fictional military officer character featured in the 1935 film serial "The Fighting Marines."
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C.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
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D.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is a comic, old-fashioned military figure in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," embodying the blustering, out-of-touch attitudes of the older generation.
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E.
Major John Boone
Major John Boone was a 17th-century English colonist and landowner in South Carolina, best known as the original proprietor of the historic Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.