Uncommon Valor
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Uncommon Valor is a 1983 war film about a retired Marine colonel leading a mission to rescue American POWs in Laos after the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uncommon Valor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8038119 — 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: Uncommon Valor Context triple: [Joe Gayton, notableWork, Uncommon Valor]
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A.
Worthy
Worthy is the surname of James Worthy, the Hall of Fame former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star known for his clutch playoff performances in the 1980s.
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B.
Valor, Lealdade e Mérito
Valor, Lealdade e Mérito is the Portuguese-language motto of the Order of the Tower and Sword, expressing the ideals of courage, loyalty, and merit.
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C.
Valour and Wisdom
Valour and Wisdom is the English motto of the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, encapsulating its emphasis on courage in action and sound judgment in leadership.
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D.
Valour
Valour is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the Canadian Premier League.
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E.
“Let Valor Not Fail”
“Let Valor Not Fail” is the English motto expressing the enduring courage and determination of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
- 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: Uncommon Valor Target entity description: Uncommon Valor is a 1983 war film about a retired Marine colonel leading a mission to rescue American POWs in Laos after the Vietnam War.
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A.
Worthy
Worthy is the surname of James Worthy, the Hall of Fame former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star known for his clutch playoff performances in the 1980s.
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B.
Valor, Lealdade e Mérito
Valor, Lealdade e Mérito is the Portuguese-language motto of the Order of the Tower and Sword, expressing the ideals of courage, loyalty, and merit.
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C.
Valour and Wisdom
Valour and Wisdom is the English motto of the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, encapsulating its emphasis on courage in action and sound judgment in leadership.
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D.
Valour
Valour is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the Canadian Premier League.
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E.
“Let Valor Not Fail”
“Let Valor Not Fail” is the English motto expressing the enduring courage and determination of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Fred Ward
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gene Hackman NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Sylvester NERFINISHED ⓘ Kay Lenz NERFINISHED ⓘ M. Emmet Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Dudikoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall "Tex" Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ Reb Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Stack NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Thomerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Stephen H. Burum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| composer | James Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ted Kotcheff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Mark Melnick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loyalty
ⓘ
military camaraderie ⓘ postwar trauma ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Colonel Jason Rhodes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a private mission to rescue Vietnam War POWs ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A retired U.S. Marine colonel assembles a team of veterans to rescue American POWs believed to be held in Laos after the Vietnam War. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gene Hackman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Buzz Feitshans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1983-12-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Joe Gayton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rick Natkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInConflict | Vietnam War aftermath ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Laos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post–Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| spokenLanguage | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Uncommon Valor Description of subject: Uncommon Valor is a 1983 war film about a retired Marine colonel leading a mission to rescue American POWs in Laos after the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.