the Sergeant
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The Sergeant is the hardened, battle-weary infantry leader at the center of the World War II film "The Big Red One," portrayed by Lee Marvin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the Sergeant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391462 — 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: the Sergeant Context triple: [The Big Red One, leadCharacter, the Sergeant]
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A.
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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B.
First Sergeant
A First Sergeant is a senior noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army who serves as the principal enlisted advisor and administrative leader of a company-sized unit.
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C.
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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D.
Sarge
Sarge is a hardened military leader and central character in the 2005 science-fiction action film adaptation of the video game Doom, portrayed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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E.
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."
- 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: the Sergeant Target entity description: The Sergeant is the hardened, battle-weary infantry leader at the center of the World War II film "The Big Red One," portrayed by Lee Marvin.
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A.
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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B.
First Sergeant
A First Sergeant is a senior noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army who serves as the principal enlisted advisor and administrative leader of a company-sized unit.
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C.
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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D.
Sarge
Sarge is a hardened military leader and central character in the 2005 science-fiction action film adaptation of the video game Doom, portrayed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Big Red One
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Big Red One (1980 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedUnit | 1st Infantry Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Samuel Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
battle-weary
ⓘ
experienced ⓘ hardened ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Samuel Fuller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Big Red One universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | war film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Big Red One (1980) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leads | infantry squad ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nicknameOfUnit | Big Red One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mentoring younger soldiers
ⓘ
stoic leadership in combat ⓘ |
| occupation | infantry sergeant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lee Marvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| rank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | protagonist ⓘ |
| side | Allies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| warTheater | European Theater of Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: the Sergeant Description of subject: The Sergeant is the hardened, battle-weary infantry leader at the center of the World War II film "The Big Red One," portrayed by Lee Marvin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.