Sergeant Dunham
E420903
Sergeant Dunham is a fictional military figure who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pathfinder."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant Dunham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4208926 — 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 Dunham Context triple: [The Pathfinder, featuresCharacter, Sergeant Dunham]
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A.
Sergeant Rita Vrataski
Sergeant Rita Vrataski is a highly skilled and legendary soldier famed for her pivotal role in humanity’s battle against alien invaders in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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B.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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C.
Connie Rivers
Connie Rivers is a character in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," known as the youthful and idealistic husband of Rose of Sharon Joad who ultimately abandons her during the hardships of the Dust Bowl migration.
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D.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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E.
Lieutenant Dan Taylor
Lieutenant Dan Taylor is a fictional Vietnam War veteran and Forrest Gump’s platoon leader whose life is profoundly altered by combat injuries, leading to a complex journey through anger, despair, and eventual acceptance in the film "Forrest Gump."
- 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 Dunham Target entity description: Sergeant Dunham is a fictional military figure who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pathfinder."
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A.
Sergeant Rita Vrataski
Sergeant Rita Vrataski is a highly skilled and legendary soldier famed for her pivotal role in humanity’s battle against alien invaders in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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B.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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C.
Connie Rivers
Connie Rivers is a character in John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," known as the youthful and idealistic husband of Rose of Sharon Joad who ultimately abandons her during the hardships of the Dust Bowl migration.
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D.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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E.
Lieutenant Dan Taylor
Lieutenant Dan Taylor is a fictional Vietnam War veteran and Forrest Gump’s platoon leader whose life is profoundly altered by combat injuries, leading to a complex journey through anger, despair, and eventual acceptance in the film "Forrest Gump."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Pathfinder ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Leatherstocking Tales
ⓘ
linked to:
The Leatherstocking Tales
|
| associatedWith |
Natty Bumppo
ⓘ
The Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) ⓘ
linked to:
Natty Bumppo
|
| authorOfWorkAppearedIn | James Fenimore Cooper ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character in a novel ⓘ |
| countryOfService | British Army ⓘ |
| creator | James Fenimore Cooper ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional military figure ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Leatherstocking Tales
ⓘ
linked to:
The Leatherstocking Tales
|
| genre | historical novel ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Mabel Dunham ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFiction |
Great Lakes region
ⓘ
North American frontier ⓘ
linked to:
Frontier (North America)
|
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
sergeant
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| parentOf | Mabel Dunham ⓘ |
| role | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | French and Indian War ⓘ |
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 Dunham Description of subject: Sergeant Dunham is a fictional military figure who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pathfinder."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.