Gunny
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Gunny is the nickname of R. Lee Ermey, the former U.S. Marine drill instructor and actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gunny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9751983 — 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: Gunny Context triple: [R. Lee Ermey, alsoKnownAs, Gunny]
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A.
Gunner
Gunner is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often associated with strength and warrior-like qualities.
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B.
Sarge
Sarge is a no-nonsense, military Jeep character from the Cars franchise who runs a surplus store in Radiator Springs.
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C.
Sergeant King
Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
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D.
Corporal Miller
Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
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E.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
- 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: Gunny Target entity description: Gunny is the nickname of R. Lee Ermey, the former U.S. Marine drill instructor and actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket."
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A.
Gunner
Gunner is a masculine given name and surname of English origin, often associated with strength and warrior-like qualities.
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B.
Sarge
Sarge is a no-nonsense, military Jeep character from the Cars franchise who runs a surplus store in Radiator Springs.
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C.
Sergeant King
Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
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D.
Corporal Miller
Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
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E.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine
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drill instructor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from pneumonia ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-03-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-04-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ermey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmographyItem |
Full Metal Jacket
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Se7en NERFINISHED ⓘ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Ronald ⓘ |
| honor | honorary gunnery sergeant (post-retirement recognition by USMC) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
improvised drill instructor dialogue in Full Metal Jacket
ⓘ
realistic military portrayals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Gunnery sergeant ⓘ |
| nickname | Gunny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableQuote | "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?" ⓘ |
| notableRole | Gunnery Sergeant Hartman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Full Metal Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
military instructor ⓘ television host ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Emporia, Kansas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Gunnery Sergeant Hartman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oxnard, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Marine Corps service member (number not specified) ⓘ |
| spouse | Nila Ermey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | documentaries about military and firearms ⓘ |
| televisionShow |
Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mail Call NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Sarge in Toy Story ⓘ |
| website | http://www.rleeermey.com/ ⓘ |
| workedWithDirector | Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsOfService | 1961–1972 ⓘ |
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: Gunny Description of subject: Gunny is the nickname of R. Lee Ermey, the former U.S. Marine drill instructor and actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.