Major Angus Pollock
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Major Angus Pollock is a comedic military character portrayed by David Niven in the 1956 British film "The Iron Petticoat."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Angus Pollock canonical | 2 |
| Major David Angus Pollock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2772539 — 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: Major Angus Pollock Context triple: [David Niven, notableRole, Major Angus Pollock]
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A.
Sir Andrew Duncan
Sir Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who played a key role in managing wartime production and economic policy during the Second World War.
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B.
Captain William Renton
Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
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C.
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
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D.
Sir Andrew Clarke
Sir Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his influential role in shaping British policy and governance in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Malay Peninsula.
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E.
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
- 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: Major Angus Pollock Target entity description: Major Angus Pollock is a comedic military character portrayed by David Niven in the 1956 British film "The Iron Petticoat."
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A.
Sir Andrew Duncan
Sir Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who played a key role in managing wartime production and economic policy during the Second World War.
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B.
Captain William Renton
Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
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C.
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
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D.
Sir Andrew Clarke
Sir Andrew Clarke was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his influential role in shaping British policy and governance in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Malay Peninsula.
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E.
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Iron Petticoat ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmGenre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| filmLanguage | English ⓘ |
| filmProductionType | British film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| filmTitle | The Iron Petticoat ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Niven ⓘ |
| rank | Major ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1956 ⓘ |
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: Major Angus Pollock Description of subject: Major Angus Pollock is a comedic military character portrayed by David Niven in the 1956 British film "The Iron Petticoat."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Major Angus Pollock