Captain Flagg
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Captain Flagg is a hard-drinking, cynical yet ultimately honorable U.S. Marine officer who serves as the central figure in the World War I–era play and film "What Price Glory?".
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Flagg canonical | 6 |
| Victor McLaglen as Captain Flagg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4764022 — 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: Captain Flagg Context triple: [What Price Glory, character, Captain Flagg]
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A.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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B.
Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock
Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock is the eccentric, mentally unstable but brilliant helicopter pilot of the A-Team in the 1980s action-adventure television series.
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
Razor Charlie
Razor Charlie is a tough, menacing bartender and vampire character portrayed by Danny Trejo in the "From Dusk Till Dawn" franchise.
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E.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
- 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 Flagg Target entity description: Captain Flagg is a hard-drinking, cynical yet ultimately honorable U.S. Marine officer who serves as the central figure in the World War I–era play and film "What Price Glory?".
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A.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
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B.
Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock
Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock is the eccentric, mentally unstable but brilliant helicopter pilot of the A-Team in the 1980s action-adventure television series.
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
Razor Charlie
Razor Charlie is a tough, menacing bartender and vampire character portrayed by Danny Trejo in the "From Dusk Till Dawn" franchise.
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E.
Captain Weaver
Captain Weaver is a hardened, pragmatic military leader who commands the 2nd Massachusetts resistance regiment in the post-apocalyptic sci‑fi TV series "Falling Skies."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
What Price Glory? (1926 film)
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linked to:
What Price Glory
What Price Glory? (1952 film) ⓘ
linked to:
What Price Glory
What Price Glory? (play) ⓘ
linked to:
What Price Glory
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| associatedTheme |
cost of war
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military camaraderie ⓘ moral ambiguity in wartime ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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hard-drinking ⓘ honorable ⓘ |
| coLeadCharacterWith | Sergeant Quirt ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdForWork |
What Price Glory? (play)
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linked to:
What Price Glory
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| fictionalUniverse |
What Price Glory?
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linked to:
What Price Glory
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| genre |
military comedy-drama
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war drama ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Marine officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
James Cagney
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Victor McLaglen ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
World War I era
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linked to:
World War I
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| thematicRole |
anti-hero
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protagonist ⓘ |
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: Captain Flagg Description of subject: Captain Flagg is a hard-drinking, cynical yet ultimately honorable U.S. Marine officer who serves as the central figure in the World War I–era play and film "What Price Glory?".
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen "Quirt and Flagg" film series
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hasCharacterRole
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Victor McLaglen as Captain Flagg
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linked to: Captain Flagg