Major Calloway
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Major Calloway is a British military police officer in the classic film "The Third Man," known for his dogged investigation into the criminal activities surrounding Harry Lime in postwar Vienna.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Major Calloway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8742305 — 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: Major Calloway Context triple: [The Third Man, character, Major Calloway]
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A.
Pappy Waldorf
Pappy Waldorf was a highly respected American college football coach best known for leading the University of California, Berkeley to national prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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B.
Clay Calloway
Clay Calloway is a reclusive, widowed rock star lion in the animated film "Sing 2" who is persuaded to return to the stage and rediscover his passion for music.
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C.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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D.
Mr. Nancy
Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
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E.
Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Nicely-Nicely Johnson is a jovial, comic gambler and sidekick character from the musical "Guys and Dolls," known for the showstopping number "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat."
- 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: Major Calloway Target entity description: Major Calloway is a British military police officer in the classic film "The Third Man," known for his dogged investigation into the criminal activities surrounding Harry Lime in postwar Vienna.
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A.
Pappy Waldorf
Pappy Waldorf was a highly respected American college football coach best known for leading the University of California, Berkeley to national prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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B.
Clay Calloway
Clay Calloway is a reclusive, widowed rock star lion in the animated film "Sing 2" who is persuaded to return to the stage and rediscover his passion for music.
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C.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
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D.
Mr. Nancy
Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
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E.
Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Nicely-Nicely Johnson is a jovial, comic gambler and sidekick character from the musical "Guys and Dolls," known for the showstopping number "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| allegiance | British occupation forces in Vienna ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Third Man ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British military police
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Military Police
|
| characterTrait |
dogged
ⓘ
principled ⓘ professional ⓘ skeptical ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Holly Martins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor |
The Third Man (1949 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Third Man
|
| filmDirectorOfWork | Carol Reed ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
film noir
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| investigates | Harry Lime ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | exposes Harry Lime's criminal activities ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist to Harry Lime
ⓘ
law enforcement officer ⓘ supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | military police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Trevor Howard ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | investigation of racketeering in Vienna ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Graham Greene ⓘ |
| settingContext |
Allied-occupied Vienna
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet sector of Vienna
|
| timePeriod | post-World War II ⓘ |
| workLocation | Vienna ⓘ |
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: Major Calloway Description of subject: Major Calloway is a British military police officer in the classic film "The Third Man," known for his dogged investigation into the criminal activities surrounding Harry Lime in postwar Vienna.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.