Lieutenant Maréchal
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Lieutenant Maréchal is a French army officer character from the classic World War I film "La Grande Illusion," known for his role in exploring themes of class, camaraderie, and the futility of war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Maréchal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9098299 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Maréchal Context triple: [Pierre Fresnay, portrayedCharacter, Lieutenant Maréchal]
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A.
Sergeant Major Lejaune
Sergeant Major Lejaune is a ruthless and manipulative French Foreign Legion officer who plays a central antagonistic role in the adventure novel "Beau Geste."
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B.
Lieutenant Caro
Lieutenant Caro is a supporting police officer character in the stage play "Between Riverside and Crazy," involved in the story’s exploration of justice, loyalty, and personal conflict.
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C.
Marechal
Marechal is the highest Portuguese Army rank, equivalent to a field marshal, typically reserved for wartime or exceptional command.
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D.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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E.
Lieutenant Leslie
Lieutenant Leslie is a British Army officer character from the World War I film "1917," portrayed by actor Andrew Scott.
- 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: Lieutenant Maréchal Target entity description: Lieutenant Maréchal is a French army officer character from the classic World War I film "La Grande Illusion," known for his role in exploring themes of class, camaraderie, and the futility of war.
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A.
Sergeant Major Lejaune
Sergeant Major Lejaune is a ruthless and manipulative French Foreign Legion officer who plays a central antagonistic role in the adventure novel "Beau Geste."
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B.
Lieutenant Caro
Lieutenant Caro is a supporting police officer character in the stage play "Between Riverside and Crazy," involved in the story’s exploration of justice, loyalty, and personal conflict.
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C.
Marechal
Marechal is the highest Portuguese Army rank, equivalent to a field marshal, typically reserved for wartime or exceptional command.
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D.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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E.
Lieutenant Leslie
Lieutenant Leslie is a British Army officer character from the World War I film "1917," portrayed by actor Andrew Scott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | La Grande Illusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
French prisoners of war ⓘ |
| centralTo |
critique of war in La Grande Illusion
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depiction of cross-class camaraderie in La Grande Illusion ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
courageous
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down-to-earth ⓘ loyal ⓘ solidarity with common soldiers ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Captain de Boeldieu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfService | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jean Renoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | French ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | French army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jean Gabin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | working-class perspective ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
camaraderie
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class ⓘ futility of war ⓘ humanism ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | war film ⓘ |
| workOfFictionSetting | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Maréchal Description of subject: Lieutenant Maréchal is a French army officer character from the classic World War I film "La Grande Illusion," known for his role in exploring themes of class, camaraderie, and the futility of war.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.