Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe
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Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe is the skilled radio operator and communications expert of the POW sabotage team in the classic World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergeant James Kinchloe | 3 |
| Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe canonical | 1 |
| commands Sergeant James Kinchloe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10586288 — 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 James "Kinch" Kinchloe Context triple: [Ivan Dixon, notableRole, Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe]
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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 Mack McGowan
Sergeant Mack McGowan is a fictional military non-commissioned officer character featured in the war-themed comic series "The Fighting Marines."
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C.
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 James "Kinch" Kinchloe Target entity description: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe is the skilled radio operator and communications expert of the POW sabotage team in the classic World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
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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 Mack McGowan
Sergeant Mack McGowan is a fictional military non-commissioned officer character featured in the war-themed comic series "The Fighting Marines."
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C.
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Allied forces ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hogan's Heroes ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| debutWork | Hogan's Heroes ⓘ |
| enemyInSeries |
Colonel Wilhelm Klink
ⓘ
Sergeant Hans Schultz ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Hogan's Heroes universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Hogan's Heroes
|
| fullName | James Kinchloe ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Kinch ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
maintaining secret communications with Allied forces
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operating hidden radios in POW camp ⓘ |
| notableAspect | one of the earliest prominent Black characters in a network TV ensemble cast ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
calm under pressure
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technical competence ⓘ |
| occupation |
communications expert
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radio operator ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ivan Dixon ⓘ |
| primaryFunctionInPlot |
coordinating sabotage missions via radio
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maintaining contact with Allied command ⓘ |
| primaryLocationInSeries | Stalag 13 POW camp ⓘ |
| raceInFiction | African American ⓘ |
| role | POW sabotage team member ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| seriesFormat | half-hour comedy ⓘ |
| seriesOriginalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| seriesPremiereYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| seriesType | classic American television series ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| specialization |
coordination of underground operations
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decoding and encoding messages ⓘ radio communications ⓘ |
| teamMembership | Hogan's sabotage team ⓘ |
| worksFor | Colonel Robert E. Hogan ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Colonel Robert E. Hogan
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Corporal Louis LeBeau ⓘ Corporal Peter Newkirk ⓘ Sergeant Andrew Carter ⓘ |
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 James "Kinch" Kinchloe Description of subject: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe is the skilled radio operator and communications expert of the POW sabotage team in the classic World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe
linked to: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe
subject linked to:
Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes
linked to: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe
linked to: Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe