The Sand Pebbles
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The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war drama film set in 1920s China, starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sand Pebbles canonical | 13 |
| The Sand Pebbles (1966 film) | 2 |
| The Sand Pebbles (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2693905 — 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: The Sand Pebbles Context triple: [Gavin MacLeod, appearedIn, The Sand Pebbles]
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A.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 war film, based on James A. Michener’s novel, that follows U.S. Navy pilots flying dangerous missions during the Korean War.
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B.
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds is a British television drama series in which Clive Merrison appeared, known for its exploration of social and political issues.
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C.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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D.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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E.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
- 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: The Sand Pebbles Target entity description: The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war drama film set in 1920s China, starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
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A.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 war film, based on James A. Michener’s novel, that follows U.S. Navy pilots flying dangerous missions during the Korean War.
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B.
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds is a British television drama series in which Clive Merrison appeared, known for its exploration of social and political issues.
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C.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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D.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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E.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: The Sand Pebbles Description of subject: The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war drama film set in 1920s China, starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Sand Pebbles (1966 film)
this entity surface form:
The Sand Pebbles (1966 film)
this entity surface form:
The Sand Pebbles (novel)