Captain Merrill Stubing
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Captain Merrill Stubing is the affable, white-uniformed cruise ship captain at the center of the classic television series "The Love Boat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Merrill Stubing canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2693884 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Captain Merrill Stubing Context triple: [Gavin MacLeod, notableRole, Captain Merrill Stubing]
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Lt. Col. Frank Slade
Lt. Col. Frank Slade is the blind, irascible yet deeply principled retired Army officer portrayed by Al Pacino in the film "Scent of a Woman."
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B.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
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C.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
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D.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
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E.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
- 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 Merrill Stubing Target entity description: Captain Merrill Stubing is the affable, white-uniformed cruise ship captain at the center of the classic television series "The Love Boat."
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A.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade
Lt. Col. Frank Slade is the blind, irascible yet deeply principled retired Army officer portrayed by Al Pacino in the film "Scent of a Woman."
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B.
Captain B. McCrea
Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
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C.
Captain Frank Furillo
Captain Frank Furillo is the dedicated, level-headed precinct commander at the heart of the 1980s police drama "Hill Street Blues," known for balancing gritty street crime with complex personal and political pressures.
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D.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
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E.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Love Boat ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Love Boat ⓘ |
| commands |
Pacific Princess cruise ship
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surface form:
Pacific Princess
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | Stubing ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Love Boat ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
The Love Boat
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surface form:
The Love Boat (TV series)
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| fullName | Merrill Stubing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic comedy television series
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television comedy-drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Merrill ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Vicki Stubing ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | ABC ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the captain on The Love Boat ⓘ |
| occupation |
cruise ship captain
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ship captain ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
affable
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authoritative ⓘ kind ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gavin MacLeod ⓘ |
| relativeType | father of Vicki Stubing ⓘ |
| role |
central character
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ship’s commanding officer ⓘ |
| title | Captain ⓘ |
| wears | white naval-style uniform ⓘ |
| worksOn |
Pacific Princess cruise ship
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surface form:
Pacific Princess
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Captain Merrill Stubing Description of subject: Captain Merrill Stubing is the affable, white-uniformed cruise ship captain at the center of the classic television series "The Love Boat."
Referenced by (2)
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