Sergeant Colon
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Sergeant Colon is a bumbling yet well-meaning member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his laziness, cowardice, and comic incompetence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergeant Colon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796237 — 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 Colon Context triple: [Guards! Guards!, mainCharacter, Sergeant Colon]
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A.
Sergeant Gonzales
Sergeant Gonzales is a blustery, often comic Spanish soldier who serves as one of the primary antagonists to the masked hero Zorro in "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Sergeant Quirt
Sergeant Quirt is a hard-drinking, womanizing U.S. Marine noncommissioned officer and one of the two central, wisecracking protagonists in the World War I–era military comedy-drama "What Price Glory?".
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C.
Colonel Bobi
Colonel Bobi is a ruthless and power-hungry military officer who becomes the central figure in a coup plot in Frederick Forsyth’s novel "The Dogs of War."
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D.
Colonel Howard
Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
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E.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
- 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 Colon Target entity description: Sergeant Colon is a bumbling yet well-meaning member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his laziness, cowardice, and comic incompetence.
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A.
Sergeant Gonzales
Sergeant Gonzales is a blustery, often comic Spanish soldier who serves as one of the primary antagonists to the masked hero Zorro in "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Sergeant Quirt
Sergeant Quirt is a hard-drinking, womanizing U.S. Marine noncommissioned officer and one of the two central, wisecracking protagonists in the World War I–era military comedy-drama "What Price Glory?".
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C.
Colonel Bobi
Colonel Bobi is a ruthless and power-hungry military officer who becomes the central figure in a coup plot in Frederick Forsyth’s novel "The Dogs of War."
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D.
Colonel Howard
Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
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E.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
- 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: Sergeant Colon Description of subject: Sergeant Colon is a bumbling yet well-meaning member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his laziness, cowardice, and comic incompetence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.