Gustav Hasford
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Gustav Hasford was an American novelist and Vietnam War veteran best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Short-Timers," which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s film "Full Metal Jacket."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gustav Hasford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9854325 — 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: Gustav Hasford Context triple: [Full Metal Jacket, basedOnAuthor, Gustav Hasford]
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A.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
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B.
Gustav Phillips
Gustav Phillips is one of the sons of American actress Julie Bowen.
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C.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Anthony Hancock
Anthony Hancock is a bumbling, downtrodden everyman character portrayed by British comedian Tony Hancock, known for his pessimistic wit and social awkwardness.
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E.
William Harris
William Harris was a historical English church musician who served in the prestigious role of Master of the Children, overseeing and training choristers.
- 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: Gustav Hasford Target entity description: Gustav Hasford was an American novelist and Vietnam War veteran best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Short-Timers," which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s film "Full Metal Jacket."
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A.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
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B.
Gustav Phillips
Gustav Phillips is one of the sons of American actress Julie Bowen.
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C.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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D.
Anthony Hancock
Anthony Hancock is a bumbling, downtrodden everyman character portrayed by British comedian Tony Hancock, known for his pessimistic wit and social awkwardness.
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E.
William Harris
William Harris was a historical English church musician who served in the prestigious role of Master of the Children, overseeing and training choristers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vietnam War veteran
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film ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ war veteran ⓘ |
| author |
Gustav Hasford
NERFINISHED
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Gustav Hasford NERFINISHED ⓘ Gustav Hasford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Gustav Hasford's Vietnam War experiences
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The Short-Timers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnExperienceOf | Vietnam War service ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Haleyville, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | untreated diabetes ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Michael Herr
NERFINISHED
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Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-11-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993-01-29 ⓘ |
| director | Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Alabama (attended, did not graduate) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hasford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Short-Timers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ war novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Gustav NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredAdaptation | Full Metal Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Gustav Hasford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Gypsy Good Time
NERFINISHED
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The Phantom Blooper NERFINISHED ⓘ The Short-Timers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Haleyville, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Aegina, Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterFor | Full Metal Jacket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Gypsy Good Time
NERFINISHED
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The Phantom Blooper NERFINISHED ⓘ The Short-Timers NERFINISHED ⓘ journalism ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
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: Gustav Hasford Description of subject: Gustav Hasford was an American novelist and Vietnam War veteran best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Short-Timers," which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s film "Full Metal Jacket."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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