Captain Benjamin Tyreen
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Captain Benjamin Tyreen is a proud, hot-tempered Irish-born Confederate cavalry officer who becomes Major Dundee’s bitter rival and uneasy ally in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Benjamin Tyreen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6292515 — 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 Benjamin Tyreen Context triple: [Major Dundee, character, Captain Benjamin Tyreen]
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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 Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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D.
Captain Clarence Oveur
Captain Clarence Oveur is a bumbling airline pilot and central comedic figure in the 1980 parody film "Airplane!"
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- 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 Benjamin Tyreen Target entity description: Captain Benjamin Tyreen is a proud, hot-tempered Irish-born Confederate cavalry officer who becomes Major Dundee’s bitter rival and uneasy ally in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee."
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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 Daniel Gregg
Captain Daniel Gregg is the gruff yet charming sea captain whose ghost forms an unlikely, romantic bond with a young widow in the classic story "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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D.
Captain Clarence Oveur
Captain Clarence Oveur is a bumbling airline pilot and central comedic figure in the 1980 parody film "Airplane!"
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E.
Captain Englehorn
Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| allyOf | Major Amos Dundee ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Major Dundee ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | American Western cinema ⓘ |
| birthplace | Ireland ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hot-tempered
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proud ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Union Army ⓘ |
| countryLoyalty | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sam Peckinpah ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Major Dundee film universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Major Dundee
|
| filmDirectorOfWork | Sam Peckinpah ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Confederate Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States Army
|
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | deuteragonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| occupation | Confederate cavalry officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Harris ⓘ |
| relationshipToProtagonist |
bitter rival
ⓘ
uneasy ally ⓘ |
| rivalOf | Major Amos Dundee ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Confederate command ⓘ |
| storyTimePeriod | American Civil War ⓘ |
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 Benjamin Tyreen Description of subject: Captain Benjamin Tyreen is a proud, hot-tempered Irish-born Confederate cavalry officer who becomes Major Dundee’s bitter rival and uneasy ally in the 1965 Western film "Major Dundee."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.