Lieutenant Leslie
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Lieutenant Leslie is a British Army officer character from the World War I film "1917," portrayed by actor Andrew Scott.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Leslie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2840354 — 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: Lieutenant Leslie Context triple: [Andrew Scott, portrayed, Lieutenant Leslie]
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A.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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B.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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C.
Lieutenant Caro
Lieutenant Caro is a supporting police officer character in the stage play "Between Riverside and Crazy," involved in the story’s exploration of justice, loyalty, and personal conflict.
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D.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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E.
Sergeant Fry
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
- 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: Lieutenant Leslie Target entity description: Lieutenant Leslie is a British Army officer character from the World War I film "1917," portrayed by actor Andrew Scott.
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A.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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B.
Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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C.
Lieutenant Caro
Lieutenant Caro is a supporting police officer character in the stage play "Between Riverside and Crazy," involved in the story’s exploration of justice, loyalty, and personal conflict.
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D.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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E.
Sergeant Fry
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment |
Allied Powers of World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
Allies in World War I
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| appearsIn | 1917 ⓘ |
| basedOn | British Army officers in World War I ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdForWork | 1917 ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
1917 (film)
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surface form:
1917 (film universe)
|
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
drama film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Lieutenant Leslie self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| introducedIn | film 1917 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | British Army officer ⓘ |
| partOf | British Army in 1917 (film) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Andrew Scott ⓘ |
| role | Lieutenant Leslie in 1917 ⓘ |
| setting |
Western Front
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Front in World War I
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| yearOfWorkDebut | 2019 ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Leslie Description of subject: Lieutenant Leslie is a British Army officer character from the World War I film "1917," portrayed by actor Andrew Scott.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1917