Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin
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Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin is a young, idealistic U.S. Army officer whose moral conflict and evolving perspective on violence and Native American warfare form a central thread of the Western film "Ulzana's Raid."
All labels observed (1)
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| Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810675 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin Context triple: [Ulzana's Raid, characterPortrayed, Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin]
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Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson
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Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle is the tough, straight-arrow police detective whose marriage to Barbara Stanwyck’s character becomes the emotional and moral battleground in the 1956 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman
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E.
James Garner as Murphy Jones
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin Target entity description: Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin is a young, idealistic U.S. Army officer whose moral conflict and evolving perspective on violence and Native American warfare form a central thread of the Western film "Ulzana's Raid."
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A.
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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B.
Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson
Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson refers to Culp’s portrayal of a suave, tennis-pro-turned-secret-agent who co-leads the espionage adventures in the 1960s television series "I Spy."
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C.
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle
Sterling Hayden as Bill Doyle is the tough, straight-arrow police detective whose marriage to Barbara Stanwyck’s character becomes the emotional and moral battleground in the 1956 film noir "Crime of Passion."
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D.
Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman
Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman is the stern yet paternal U.S. Army colonel who serves as John Rambo’s former commanding officer and moral counterpoint in the Rambo film series.
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E.
James Garner as Murphy Jones
James Garner as Murphy Jones is the charming, widowed small-town pharmacist whose warm, understated performance anchors the romantic comedy-drama film "Murphy's Romance."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalCharacterPortrayal
ⓘ
filmCharacter ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ulzana's Raid ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
culturalConflict
ⓘ
ethicsOfWarfare ⓘ idealismVsRealism ⓘ |
| characterArc | evolvingPerspectiveOnViolence ⓘ |
| characterName | Lt. Garnett DeBuin ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
idealistic
ⓘ
young ⓘ |
| conflictWith | ApacheRaidingParty ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
UnitedStates
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| development | gainsPragmaticUnderstandingOfWar ⓘ |
| directedBy | Robert Aldrich ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Revisionist Western ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | motionPicture ⓘ |
| moralPosition | questionsUseOfBrutalTactics ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | exploresMoralConflict ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | centralCharacter ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bruce Davison ⓘ |
| rank | Lieutenant ⓘ |
| releaseYearOfWork | 1972 ⓘ |
| screenTimeImportance | majorRole ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
IndianWarsEra
ⓘ
linked to:
United States–Native American wars
|
| side |
U.S. Cavalry
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Cavalry
|
| themeInvolvement |
NativeAmericanWarfare
ⓘ
violence ⓘ |
| workType | Western film ⓘ |
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Subject: Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin Description of subject: Bruce Davison as Lt. Garnett DeBuin is a young, idealistic U.S. Army officer whose moral conflict and evolving perspective on violence and Native American warfare form a central thread of the Western film "Ulzana's Raid."
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