Brigadier Gerard
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Brigadier Gerard is a 1927 silent adventure film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about a dashing French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brigadier Gerard canonical | 2 |
| Brigadier General Gerard (fictional Napoleonic soldier by Arthur Conan Doyle) | 1 |
| Brigadier Gerard (1927 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6262592 — 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: Brigadier Gerard Context triple: [Rod La Rocque, notableWork, Brigadier Gerard]
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A.
Brigadier Gerard
Brigadier Gerard was a champion British Thoroughbred racehorse of the early 1970s, celebrated as one of the greatest milers in racing history.
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B.
Brigadier Archie Paris
Brigadier Archie Paris was a British Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of Kampar in Malaya.
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C.
Brigadier David Morgan
Brigadier David Morgan is a British Army officer best known for leading UK forces in the Battle of Mount Tumbledown during the Falklands War.
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D.
Lord Millett
Lord Millett was a prominent British judge and law lord renowned for his influential judgments in commercial and trust law.
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E.
Colonel Broadwood
Colonel Broadwood was a British Army officer best known for leading mounted troops during the Second Boer War, including at the Battle of Sanna's Post.
- 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: Brigadier Gerard Target entity description: Brigadier Gerard is a 1927 silent adventure film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about a dashing French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Brigadier Gerard
Brigadier Gerard was a champion British Thoroughbred racehorse of the early 1970s, celebrated as one of the greatest milers in racing history.
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B.
Brigadier Archie Paris
Brigadier Archie Paris was a British Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of Kampar in Malaya.
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C.
Brigadier David Morgan
Brigadier David Morgan is a British Army officer best known for leading UK forces in the Battle of Mount Tumbledown during the Falklands War.
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D.
Lord Millett
Lord Millett was a prominent British judge and law lord renowned for his influential judgments in commercial and trust law.
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E.
Colonel Broadwood
Colonel Broadwood was a British Army officer best known for leading mounted troops during the Second Boer War, including at the Battle of Sanna's Post.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Arthur Conan Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard stories ⓘ |
| basedOn |
stories of Brigadier Gerard
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works by Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmFormat |
black-and-white
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silent ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
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historical film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | a dashing French cavalry officer ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Brigadier Gerard ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| language | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Etienne Gerard ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| productionEra | late silent era ⓘ |
| protagonistMilitaryAllegiance | French Army ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | French ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | cavalry officer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| workTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Brigadier Gerard Description of subject: Brigadier Gerard is a 1927 silent adventure film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about a dashing French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Brigadier Gerard
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namedAfter
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Brigadier General Gerard (fictional Napoleonic soldier by Arthur Conan Doyle)
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subject linked to:
British racehorse Brigadier Gerard
linked to: Brigadier Gerard
subject linked to:
La Rocque
linked to: Brigadier Gerard