Wings for the Eagle (story)
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"Wings for the Eagle" is a short story by American aviator and screenwriter Frank Wead, drawing on his aviation background to depict early 20th-century flight and military themes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wings for the Eagle (screenplay) | 1 |
| Wings for the Eagle (story) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10243051 — 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: Wings for the Eagle (story) Context triple: [Frank Wead, notableWork, Wings for the Eagle (story)]
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A.
Eagle in the Sky
Eagle in the Sky is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that follows a wealthy South African pilot whose life is transformed by love, war, and personal tragedy.
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B.
On Eagle’s Wings
On Eagle’s Wings is a popular contemporary Christian hymn, written by Michael Joncas in the late 1970s, that draws on Psalm 91 for its lyrics of comfort and divine protection.
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C.
EAGLE FLIGHT
EAGLE FLIGHT is the radio callsign used by American Eagle Airlines for its flight operations.
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D.
The Eagle and Me
"The Eagle and Me" is a song with lyrics by American songwriter E. Y. Harburg, best known from the 1944 musical film "Cabin in the Sky."
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E.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 2011 historical adventure film set in Roman Britain, following a young Roman officer’s quest to restore his family’s honor by recovering a lost legion’s emblem beyond Hadrian’s Wall.
- 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: Wings for the Eagle (story) Target entity description: "Wings for the Eagle" is a short story by American aviator and screenwriter Frank Wead, drawing on his aviation background to depict early 20th-century flight and military themes.
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A.
Eagle in the Sky
Eagle in the Sky is an adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that follows a wealthy South African pilot whose life is transformed by love, war, and personal tragedy.
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B.
On Eagle’s Wings
On Eagle’s Wings is a popular contemporary Christian hymn, written by Michael Joncas in the late 1970s, that draws on Psalm 91 for its lyrics of comfort and divine protection.
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C.
EAGLE FLIGHT
EAGLE FLIGHT is the radio callsign used by American Eagle Airlines for its flight operations.
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D.
The Eagle and Me
"The Eagle and Me" is a song with lyrics by American songwriter E. Y. Harburg, best known from the 1944 musical film "Cabin in the Sky."
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E.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 2011 historical adventure film set in Roman Britain, following a young Roman officer’s quest to restore his family’s honor by recovering a lost legion’s emblem beyond Hadrian’s Wall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Frank Wead ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creatorOccupationOfAuthor |
aviator
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| depicts |
early 20th-century flight
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military themes ⓘ |
| genre |
aviation fiction
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military fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Frank Wead's aviation background ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
early 20th-century aviation
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military life ⓘ |
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: Wings for the Eagle (story) Description of subject: "Wings for the Eagle" is a short story by American aviator and screenwriter Frank Wead, drawing on his aviation background to depict early 20th-century flight and military themes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wings for the Eagle (story)