Captain Anson
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Captain Anson is the hard-pressed yet determined British Army officer who leads a perilous desert ambulance journey in the World War II film "Ice Cold in Alex."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Anson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22689824 — 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 Anson Context triple: [Ice Cold in Alex, character, Captain Anson]
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A.
Captain Benwick
Captain Benwick is a melancholic, poetry-loving naval officer in Jane Austen’s novel "Persuasion," known for his grief over a lost fiancée and his eventual engagement to Louisa Musgrove.
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B.
Captain Nicholl
Captain Nicholl is a key character in Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon," known as an engineer and rival to the protagonist Barbicane in the story's ambitious lunar expedition.
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C.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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Captain Waggett
Captain Waggett is a pompous, regulation-obsessed Home Guard officer whose attempts to control a shipwrecked whisky cargo provide much of the comic conflict in the novel and film "Whisky Galore!".
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E.
Captain Anson Mills
Captain Anson Mills was a U.S. Army officer and frontier cavalry leader known for his role in the Indian Wars and later as an inventor and businessman.
- 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 Anson Target entity description: Captain Anson is the hard-pressed yet determined British Army officer who leads a perilous desert ambulance journey in the World War II film "Ice Cold in Alex."
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A.
Captain Benwick
Captain Benwick is a melancholic, poetry-loving naval officer in Jane Austen’s novel "Persuasion," known for his grief over a lost fiancée and his eventual engagement to Louisa Musgrove.
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B.
Captain Nicholl
Captain Nicholl is a key character in Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon," known as an engineer and rival to the protagonist Barbicane in the story's ambitious lunar expedition.
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C.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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D.
Captain Waggett
Captain Waggett is a pompous, regulation-obsessed Home Guard officer whose attempts to control a shipwrecked whisky cargo provide much of the comic conflict in the novel and film "Whisky Galore!".
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E.
Captain Anson Mills
Captain Anson Mills was a U.S. Army officer and frontier cavalry leader known for his role in the Indian Wars and later as an inventor and businessman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nurse Diana Murdoch in Ice Cold in Alex