Sergeant Major Lejaune
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Sergeant Major Lejaune is a ruthless and manipulative French Foreign Legion officer who plays a central antagonistic role in the adventure novel "Beau Geste."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergeant Major Lejaune canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5163787 — 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 Major Lejaune Context triple: [Beau Geste, mainCharacter, Sergeant Major Lejaune]
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A.
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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B.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
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D.
Sergeant King
Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
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E.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
- 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 Major Lejaune Target entity description: Sergeant Major Lejaune is a ruthless and manipulative French Foreign Legion officer who plays a central antagonistic role in the adventure novel "Beau Geste."
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A.
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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B.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
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D.
Sergeant King
Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
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E.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | French Foreign Legion ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
Digby Geste
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John Geste ⓘ Michael "Beau" Geste ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
novel "Beau Geste"
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linked to:
Beau Geste
|
| characterIn | Beau Geste ⓘ |
| commands |
Fort Zinderneuf garrison
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Zinderneuf
|
| createdBy | P. C. Wren ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Beau Geste universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Beau Geste
|
| firstAppearance |
"Beau Geste" (1924)
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linked to:
Beau Geste
|
| genre | adventure fiction character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English-language novel ⓘ |
| medium | prose literature ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation | French Foreign Legion officer ⓘ |
| rank | sergeant major ⓘ |
| role | central antagonist ⓘ |
| setting | French Foreign Legion outposts in the Sahara Desert ⓘ |
| trait |
authoritarian
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cruel ⓘ manipulative ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
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 Major Lejaune Description of subject: Sergeant Major Lejaune is a ruthless and manipulative French Foreign Legion officer who plays a central antagonistic role in the adventure novel "Beau Geste."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.