Staff Sergeant William James
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Staff Sergeant William James is the reckless yet highly skilled U.S. Army bomb disposal expert who serves as the central protagonist in the war film "The Hurt Locker."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Staff Sergeant William James canonical | 2 |
| Sergeant William James | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10514680 — 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: Staff Sergeant William James Context triple: [The Hurt Locker, mainCharacter, Staff Sergeant William James]
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A.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
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B.
Sergeant Elijah Churchill
Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
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C.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
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D.
Corporal Larry Lawrence
Corporal Larry Lawrence is a fictional U.S. Marine character featured in the wartime comic series "The Fighting Marines," typically portrayed in action-packed military adventures.
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E.
Sergeant Daniel Bissell
Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
- 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: Staff Sergeant William James Target entity description: Staff Sergeant William James is the reckless yet highly skilled U.S. Army bomb disposal expert who serves as the central protagonist in the war film "The Hurt Locker."
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A.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
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B.
Sergeant Elijah Churchill
Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
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C.
Sergeant Milton Warden
Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
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D.
Corporal Larry Lawrence
Corporal Larry Lawrence is a fictional U.S. Marine character featured in the wartime comic series "The Fighting Marines," typically portrayed in action-packed military adventures.
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E.
Sergeant Daniel Bissell
Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
U.S. Army
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army
|
| appearsIn | The Hurt Locker ⓘ |
| branchOfService | United States Army ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
adrenaline-seeking
ⓘ
highly skilled ⓘ reckless ⓘ |
| conflict | Iraq War ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Mark Boal ⓘ |
| createdFor | The Hurt Locker ⓘ |
| directedBy | Kathryn Bigelow ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Hurt Locker (2008/2009 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Hurt Locker
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | war drama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Staff Sergeant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
bomb disposal expert
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jeremy Renner ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Iraq ⓘ |
| specialization | Explosive Ordnance Disposal ⓘ |
| teamAssignment | U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit ⓘ |
| unitRole | team leader ⓘ |
| workType | war film ⓘ |
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: Staff Sergeant William James Description of subject: Staff Sergeant William James is the reckless yet highly skilled U.S. Army bomb disposal expert who serves as the central protagonist in the war film "The Hurt Locker."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Staff Sergeant William James