Eriksson
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Eriksson is the central soldier protagonist in the 1989 Vietnam War film "Casualties of War," portrayed by Michael J. Fox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eriksson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493978 — 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: Eriksson Context triple: [Casualties of War, leadCharacter, Eriksson]
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A.
Eriksen
Eriksen is a common Scandinavian surname, particularly prevalent in Norway and Denmark, meaning "son of Erik."
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B.
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman widely regarded as one of the most offensively talented blueliners of his generation in the NHL.
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C.
Eskil Erlandsson
Eskil Erlandsson is a Swedish Centre Party politician who served as Minister for Agriculture in the centre-right governments led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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D.
Erik Kråkström
Erik Kråkström was a Finnish architect known for his modernist industrial and residential designs, including significant work on the Sunila Pulp Mill complex.
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E.
Erling Persson
Erling Persson was a Swedish entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global fashion retail chain H&M.
- 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: Eriksson Target entity description: Eriksson is the central soldier protagonist in the 1989 Vietnam War film "Casualties of War," portrayed by Michael J. Fox.
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A.
Eriksen
Eriksen is a common Scandinavian surname, particularly prevalent in Norway and Denmark, meaning "son of Erik."
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B.
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson
Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman widely regarded as one of the most offensively talented blueliners of his generation in the NHL.
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C.
Eskil Erlandsson
Eskil Erlandsson is a Swedish Centre Party politician who served as Minister for Agriculture in the centre-right governments led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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D.
Erik Kråkström
Erik Kråkström was a Finnish architect known for his modernist industrial and residential designs, including significant work on the Sunila Pulp Mill complex.
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E.
Erling Persson
Erling Persson was a Swedish entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global fashion retail chain H&M.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Casualties of War ⓘ |
| basedOn | real events in the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | David Rabe ⓘ |
| createdFor | Casualties of War ⓘ |
| featuredIn | theatrical feature film ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Brian De Palma ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Max Eriksson ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| moralAlignment |
principled
ⓘ
whistleblower against war crimes ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| opposes | rape of a Vietnamese civilian ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael J. Fox ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Sergeant Meserve ⓘ |
| setting |
Vietnam
ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| timePeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
| workGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1989 ⓘ |
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: Eriksson Description of subject: Eriksson is the central soldier protagonist in the 1989 Vietnam War film "Casualties of War," portrayed by Michael J. Fox.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.