A Medal for Benny
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A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American drama film about a Mexican-American soldier’s heroism in World War II, noted for its exploration of small-town prejudice and featuring an acclaimed performance by J. Carrol Naish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Medal for Benny canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8976020 — 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: A Medal for Benny Context triple: [J. Carrol Naish, notableWork, A Medal for Benny]
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A.
The Boys in Gold
The Boys in Gold is the popular nickname for Nashville SC, the Major League Soccer club known for its yellow kits and strong defensive identity.
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B.
Private Benjamin
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered woman who impulsively joins the U.S. Army and struggles to adapt to military life.
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C.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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D.
Ten Little Soldiers
Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
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E.
Book of Honor
The Book of Honor is a classified CIA volume that records the names and stories of agency officers who died in the line of duty, including those whose identities remain secret.
- 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: A Medal for Benny Target entity description: A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American drama film about a Mexican-American soldier’s heroism in World War II, noted for its exploration of small-town prejudice and featuring an acclaimed performance by J. Carrol Naish.
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A.
The Boys in Gold
The Boys in Gold is the popular nickname for Nashville SC, the Major League Soccer club known for its yellow kits and strong defensive identity.
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B.
Private Benjamin
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered woman who impulsively joins the U.S. Army and struggles to adapt to military life.
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C.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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D.
Ten Little Soldiers
Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
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E.
Book of Honor
The Book of Honor is a classified CIA volume that records the names and stories of agency officers who died in the line of duty, including those whose identities remain secret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: A Medal for Benny Description of subject: A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American drama film about a Mexican-American soldier’s heroism in World War II, noted for its exploration of small-town prejudice and featuring an acclaimed performance by J. Carrol Naish.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.