Sergeant Putnam
E243215
Sergeant Putnam is a fictional military character played by British actor Bernard Hill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant Putnam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2182101 — 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: Sergeant Putnam Context triple: [Bernard Hill, portrayed, Sergeant Putnam]
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A.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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B.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
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C.
Isaac Howland
Isaac Howland was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to an early New England colonial family.
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D.
Uriah Smith
Uriah Smith was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist theologian, author, and editor known especially for his influential prophetic interpretations and long tenure at the Review and Herald.
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E.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
- 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: Sergeant Putnam Target entity description: Sergeant Putnam is a fictional military character played by British actor Bernard Hill.
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A.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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B.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
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C.
Isaac Howland
Isaac Howland was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to an early New England colonial family.
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D.
Uriah Smith
Uriah Smith was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist theologian, author, and editor known especially for his influential prophetic interpretations and long tenure at the Review and Herald.
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E.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bernard Hill ⓘ |
| rank | sergeant ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sergeant Putnam Description of subject: Sergeant Putnam is a fictional military character played by British actor Bernard Hill.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.