Captain Kiesel
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Captain Kiesel is a German army officer in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," portrayed as a weary, reflective aristocrat increasingly disillusioned with the brutality and futility of the Eastern Front.
All labels observed (1)
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| Captain Kiesel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20407532 — 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: Captain Kiesel Context triple: [Cross of Iron, character, Captain Kiesel]
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A.
Captain Knauer
Captain Knauer is a strict and authoritarian prison guard captain who serves as a key antagonist in the sports comedy-drama film "The Longest Yard."
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B.
Captain Stransky
Captain Stransky is an ambitious, aristocratic German officer in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," known for his ruthless obsession with winning the Iron Cross despite his cowardice in combat.
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C.
Captain Mauzner
Captain Mauzner is a screenwriter best known for his work on the film "Factory Girl," a biographical drama about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol's 1960s art scene.
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D.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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E.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
- 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 Kiesel Target entity description: Captain Kiesel is a German army officer in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," portrayed as a weary, reflective aristocrat increasingly disillusioned with the brutality and futility of the Eastern Front.
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A.
Captain Knauer
Captain Knauer is a strict and authoritarian prison guard captain who serves as a key antagonist in the sports comedy-drama film "The Longest Yard."
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B.
Captain Stransky
Captain Stransky is an ambitious, aristocratic German officer in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," known for his ruthless obsession with winning the Iron Cross despite his cowardice in combat.
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C.
Captain Mauzner
Captain Mauzner is a screenwriter best known for his work on the film "Factory Girl," a biographical drama about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol's 1960s art scene.
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D.
Captain McCluskey
Captain McCluskey is a corrupt New York police captain in the classic crime film "The Godfather."
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E.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.