Capt. Erskine Cooney
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Capt. Erskine Cooney is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed as an indecisive and often cowardly company commander in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Capt. Erskine Cooney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810770 — 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: Capt. Erskine Cooney Context triple: [Attack!, character, Capt. Erskine Cooney]
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A.
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
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B.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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C.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
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D.
Colonel Frank Fitts
Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
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E.
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
- 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: Capt. Erskine Cooney Target entity description: Capt. Erskine Cooney is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed as an indecisive and often cowardly company commander in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
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A.
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
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B.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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C.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
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D.
Colonel Frank Fitts
Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
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E.
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Attack! ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cowardly
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indecisive ⓘ |
| conflictContext | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| filmReleaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| genre | war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
incompetent leader
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morally weak officer ⓘ |
| roleInStory | company commander ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| workType | film ⓘ |
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: Capt. Erskine Cooney Description of subject: Capt. Erskine Cooney is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed as an indecisive and often cowardly company commander in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.