Sergeant J.T. Sanborn
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Sergeant J.T. Sanborn is a disciplined and cautious U.S. Army explosives technician in the Iraq War, featured as a central character in the film "The Hurt Locker."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant J.T. Sanborn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10514681 — 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: Sergeant J.T. Sanborn Context triple: [The Hurt Locker, mainCharacter, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn]
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A.
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.
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B.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
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C.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
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D.
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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E.
Lieutenant Robert Maynard
Lieutenant Robert Maynard was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the 1718 naval engagement that resulted in the death of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
- 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: Sergeant J.T. Sanborn Target entity description: Sergeant J.T. Sanborn is a disciplined and cautious U.S. Army explosives technician in the Iraq War, featured as a central character in the film "The Hurt Locker."
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A.
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.
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B.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
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C.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
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D.
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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E.
Lieutenant Robert Maynard
Lieutenant Robert Maynard was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the 1718 naval engagement that resulted in the death of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Hurt Locker ⓘ |
| awardContextOfWork |
The Hurt Locker Academy Award for Best Director
ⓘ
The Hurt Locker Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
linked to:
The Hurt Locker
|
| characterArcElement |
conflict with Staff Sergeant William James over risk-taking
ⓘ
struggle with fear and responsibility in combat situations ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
by-the-book
ⓘ
cautious ⓘ disciplined ⓘ professional ⓘ |
| conflict | Iraq War ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Mark Boal ⓘ |
| familyName | Sanborn ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Hurt Locker universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Hurt Locker
|
| filmDirectedBy | Kathryn Bigelow ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Hurt Locker (2008 Venice premiere, 2009 wide release) ⓘ |
| genreContext | war drama ⓘ |
| givenName |
J.T.
ⓘ
linked to:
T. J.
|
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
deuteragonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
bomb disposal expert
ⓘ
explosive ordnance disposal technician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Anthony Mackie ⓘ |
| rank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| servesAlongside |
Specialist Owen Eldridge
ⓘ
Staff Sergeant William James ⓘ |
| setting |
Baghdad
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ |
| teamRole | leader of Bravo Company EOD team ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
military camaraderie
ⓘ
psychological effects of war ⓘ risk and survival in combat ⓘ |
| unitType | Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | 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: Sergeant J.T. Sanborn Description of subject: Sergeant J.T. Sanborn is a disciplined and cautious U.S. Army explosives technician in the Iraq War, featured as a central character in the film "The Hurt Locker."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.