A Soldier's Story
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A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Soldier's Story canonical | 15 |
| A Soldier’s Story | 6 |
| A Soldier's Story (1984 film) | 2 |
| A Soldier's Story (film) | 1 |
| A Soldier’s Story (film adaptation of A Soldier’s Play) | 1 |
| Private Wilkie in A Soldier’s Story | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432911 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Soldier's Story Context triple: [Norman Jewison, notableWork, A Soldier's Story]
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A.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Armed Freedom
Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Silver Star
The Silver Star is a high-level U.S. military decoration awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.
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E.
Silver Star
Silver Star is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City with Florida.
- 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: A Soldier's Story Target entity description: A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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A.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Armed Freedom
Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Silver Star
The Silver Star is a high-level U.S. military decoration awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.
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E.
Silver Star
Silver Star is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs along the U.S. East Coast, connecting New York City with Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: A Soldier's Story Description of subject: A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Captain Charles Taylor
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A Soldier’s Story (film adaptation of A Soldier’s Play)
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Captain Davenport in A Soldier's Story
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Captain Davenport in A Soldier's Story
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