Captain Morton
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Captain Morton is the strict, petty, and authoritarian cargo-ship captain who serves as the main antagonist to the crew in the play and film "Mister Roberts."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Morton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10354949 — 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: Captain Morton Context triple: [Mister Roberts, character, Captain Morton]
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A.
Maggi
Maggi is a popular global food brand best known for its instant noodles, seasonings, and convenience products.
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B.
Comer
Comer is a surname most prominently associated with English actress Jodie Comer, known for her acclaimed role in the television series "Killing Eve."
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C.
Geordie Hormel
Geordie Hormel was an American heir to the Hormel meatpacking fortune, a musician, and a recording studio owner known for founding the Village Recorder in Los Angeles.
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D.
Schmilco
Schmilco is a 2016 studio album by American alternative rock band Wilco, noted for its stripped-down, introspective, and acoustic-driven sound.
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E.
Driscoll
Driscoll is a surname most notably associated with American child actor Bobby Driscoll, known for his work with Disney in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Captain Morton Target entity description: Captain Morton is the strict, petty, and authoritarian cargo-ship captain who serves as the main antagonist to the crew in the play and film "Mister Roberts."
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A.
Maggi
Maggi is a popular global food brand best known for its instant noodles, seasonings, and convenience products.
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B.
Comer
Comer is a surname most prominently associated with English actress Jodie Comer, known for her acclaimed role in the television series "Killing Eve."
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C.
Geordie Hormel
Geordie Hormel was an American heir to the Hormel meatpacking fortune, a musician, and a recording studio owner known for founding the Village Recorder in Los Angeles.
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D.
Schmilco
Schmilco is a 2016 studio album by American alternative rock band Wilco, noted for its stripped-down, introspective, and acoustic-driven sound.
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E.
Driscoll
Driscoll is a surname most notably associated with American child actor Bobby Driscoll, known for his work with Disney in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| antagonistIn | Mister Roberts ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mister Roberts ⓘ |
| basedOn | characters from the novel Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen ⓘ |
| coCreatedBy | Joshua Logan ⓘ |
| commands | U.S. Navy cargo ship ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
Doug Roberts
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crew of the cargo ship ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | United States Navy ⓘ |
| createdBy | Thomas Heggen ⓘ |
| genreContext | military comedy-drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film
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stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main antagonist ⓘ |
| notableBehavior |
denies shore leave to the crew
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obsessively enforces trivial regulations ⓘ uses authority to control minor privileges ⓘ |
| occupation | cargo-ship captain ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
authoritarian
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petty ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| relationshipToShip | commanding officer ⓘ |
| roleIn | Mister Roberts ⓘ |
| settingOfActions |
World War II Pacific theater
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linked to:
Pacific War
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| themeAssociation |
abuse of authority
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bureaucratic pettiness ⓘ |
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: Captain Morton Description of subject: Captain Morton is the strict, petty, and authoritarian cargo-ship captain who serves as the main antagonist to the crew in the play and film "Mister Roberts."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.