Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army
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Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army is the gently bemused, unflappable bank manager and second-in-command of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon in the classic British sitcom.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8964225 — 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: Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army Context triple: [John Le Mesurier, notableRole, Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army]
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A.
Sergeant Fry
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
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B.
Corporal Nobby Nobbs
Corporal Nobby Nobbs is a scruffy, questionably human member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his dubious morals, petty thievery, and comic relief.
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C.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
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D.
William Boot
William Boot is the bumbling, nature-obsessed journalist protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," sent abroad as an unlikely foreign correspondent.
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E.
Brigadier Archie Paris
Brigadier Archie Paris was a British Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of Kampar in Malaya.
- 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: Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army Target entity description: Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army is the gently bemused, unflappable bank manager and second-in-command of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon in the classic British sitcom.
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A.
Sergeant Fry
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
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B.
Corporal Nobby Nobbs
Corporal Nobby Nobbs is a scruffy, questionably human member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, known for his dubious morals, petty thievery, and comic relief.
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C.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
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D.
William Boot
William Boot is the bumbling, nature-obsessed journalist protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," sent abroad as an unlikely foreign correspondent.
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E.
Brigadier Archie Paris
Brigadier Archie Paris was a British Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the World War II Battle of Kampar in Malaya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army Description of subject: Sergeant Arthur Wilson in Dad's Army is the gently bemused, unflappable bank manager and second-in-command of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon in the classic British sitcom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.