Lt. Joe Costa
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Lt. Joe Costa is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army officer and central figure in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!" who leads his men under a cowardly commanding officer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lt. Joe Costa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810769 — 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: Lt. Joe Costa Context triple: [Attack!, character, Lt. Joe Costa]
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A.
Lt. Frank Cioffi
Lt. Frank Cioffi is the amiable, theater-loving detective protagonist of the musical comedy whodunit "Curtains," who investigates a murder during a troubled Broadway-bound production.
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B.
Lt. Willard Slattery
Lt. Willard Slattery is the central protagonist of the novel and film "Slattery’s Hurricane," a former Navy pilot drawn into a dangerous mission amid a powerful storm while grappling with personal and moral conflicts.
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C.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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D.
Lt. Vincent Hanna
Lt. Vincent Hanna is an intense, obsessive Los Angeles robbery-homicide detective portrayed by Al Pacino in Michael Mann's crime film "Heat."
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E.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
- 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: Lt. Joe Costa Target entity description: Lt. Joe Costa is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army officer and central figure in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!" who leads his men under a cowardly commanding officer.
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A.
Lt. Frank Cioffi
Lt. Frank Cioffi is the amiable, theater-loving detective protagonist of the musical comedy whodunit "Curtains," who investigates a murder during a troubled Broadway-bound production.
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B.
Lt. Willard Slattery
Lt. Willard Slattery is the central protagonist of the novel and film "Slattery’s Hurricane," a former Navy pilot drawn into a dangerous mission amid a powerful storm while grappling with personal and moral conflicts.
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C.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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D.
Lt. Vincent Hanna
Lt. Vincent Hanna is an intense, obsessive Los Angeles robbery-homicide detective portrayed by Al Pacino in Michael Mann's crime film "Heat."
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E.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States Army ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Attack! ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
battle-hardened
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tough ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor |
Attack! (1956 film)
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linked to:
Attack!
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| fictionalUniverse |
Attack! (film universe)
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linked to:
Attack!
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| filmReleaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| filmTitle | Attack! ⓘ |
| genre | war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | cinema ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| servesUnder | cowardly commanding officer ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| theme |
combat leadership
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cowardice in command ⓘ morality in war ⓘ |
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: Lt. Joe Costa Description of subject: Lt. Joe Costa is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Army officer and central figure in the 1956 World War II film "Attack!" who leads his men under a cowardly commanding officer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.