Willis Davidge
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Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willis Davidge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6465011 — 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: Willis Davidge Context triple: [Jeriba Shigan, friendOf, Willis Davidge]
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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E.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
- 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: Willis Davidge Target entity description: Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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E.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ starfighter pilot ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Earth forces
ⓘ
human military ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Enemy Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| basedOn | Willis Davidge (novella character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterArc | from soldier to compassionate caretaker ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | overcomes xenophobia ⓘ |
| closeRelationshipWith | Jeriba Shigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | human–Drac war NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Barry Longyear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wolfgang Petersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Dracs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWorkAppearedIn | Wolfgang Petersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmTitle | Enemy Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Enemy Mine (1979 novella) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFilmAppearance | Enemy Mine (1985 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerAttitude | prejudiced against Dracs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Zammis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeworld | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Drac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| laterFriendOf | Jeriba Shigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| learnsLanguageOf | Dracs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novella ⓘ |
| militaryRole | pilot in the human–Drac conflict ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Earthman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
forming an unlikely friendship with the Drac Jeriba Shigan
ⓘ
raising Jeriba Shigan’s child Zammis ⓘ surviving on a hostile alien planet ⓘ |
| novellaTitle | Enemy Mine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | fighter pilot ⓘ |
| opposes | human miners enslaving Dracs ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dennis Quaid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rescues | Zammis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | distant future ⓘ |
| species | Human ⓘ |
| strandedOn | Fyrine IV 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: Willis Davidge Description of subject: Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jeriba Shigan