Boyd "Bible" Swan
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Boyd "Bible" Swan is a devout, sharpshooting tank gunner and key member of the crew in the World War II film "Fury."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boyd "Bible" Swan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532739 — 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: Boyd "Bible" Swan Context triple: [Fury, hasCharacter, Boyd "Bible" Swan]
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A.
David Swan
David Swan is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of fate and missed opportunity through the tale of a young man who unknowingly sleeps through life-changing events.
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B.
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Barrett Smith
Barrett Smith is a musician best known as a member of the bluegrass and Americana band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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D.
Clem Bevans
Clem Bevans was an American character actor best known for his many film and television roles as crusty old-timers and rural eccentrics during the 1930s–1950s.
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E.
Alby Grant
Alby Grant is a central character in the television series "Big Love," known as a power-hungry and deeply conflicted leader within a fundamentalist Mormon polygamist sect.
- 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: Boyd "Bible" Swan Target entity description: Boyd "Bible" Swan is a devout, sharpshooting tank gunner and key member of the crew in the World War II film "Fury."
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A.
David Swan
David Swan is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of fate and missed opportunity through the tale of a young man who unknowingly sleeps through life-changing events.
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B.
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Barrett Smith
Barrett Smith is a musician best known as a member of the bluegrass and Americana band Steep Canyon Rangers.
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D.
Clem Bevans
Clem Bevans was an American character actor best known for his many film and television roles as crusty old-timers and rural eccentrics during the 1930s–1950s.
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E.
Alby Grant
Alby Grant is a central character in the television series "Big Love," known as a power-hungry and deeply conflicted leader within a fundamentalist Mormon polygamist sect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| alignment | Allies ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
2014 film Fury
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Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devout
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sharpshooter ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | David Ayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewPosition | gunner ⓘ |
| era | 1945 ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| fullName | Boyd Swan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | war film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
marksmanship
ⓘ
quoting the Bible ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Don "Wardaddy" Collier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fury tank crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | tank gunner ⓘ |
| partOf | Fury (tank) crew ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Shia LaBeouf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Technical Sergeant ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| setting | European Theater of Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicle | M4A3E8 Sherman tank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Boyd "Bible" Swan Description of subject: Boyd "Bible" Swan is a devout, sharpshooting tank gunner and key member of the crew in the World War II film "Fury."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.