Captain van der Poel
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Captain van der Poel is a pivotal character in the British war film "Ice Cold in Alex," whose mysterious and tense presence drives much of the story’s suspense during a perilous desert journey in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain van der Poel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22689826 — 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 van der Poel Context triple: [Ice Cold in Alex, character, Captain van der Poel]
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A.
Captain de Boeldieu
Captain de Boeldieu is an aristocratic French officer in Jean Renoir’s film "La Grande Illusion," whose refined manners and sense of honor highlight the fading world of the European nobility during World War I.
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Captain William Diel
Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
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C.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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D.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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E.
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!".
- 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 van der Poel Target entity description: Captain van der Poel is a pivotal character in the British war film "Ice Cold in Alex," whose mysterious and tense presence drives much of the story’s suspense during a perilous desert journey in World War II.
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A.
Captain de Boeldieu
Captain de Boeldieu is an aristocratic French officer in Jean Renoir’s film "La Grande Illusion," whose refined manners and sense of honor highlight the fading world of the European nobility during World War I.
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B.
Captain William Diel
Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
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C.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
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D.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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E.
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!".
- 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