Sergeant York
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Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant York canonical | 27 |
| Alvin C. York | 2 |
| Sergeant Alvin C. York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T821066 — 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 York Context triple: [Howard Hawks, notableWork, Sergeant York]
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A.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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B.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II who later became a popular Hollywood actor and a symbol of military heroism.
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C.
John Hunt
John Hunt is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, exploration, and the arts.
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D.
W. W. Ambrose
W. W. Ambrose was an architect known for designing the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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E.
Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery was an Irish-born American Revolutionary War general best known for leading the failed 1775 American invasion of Quebec, during which he was killed in action.
- 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 York Target entity description: Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
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A.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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B.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II who later became a popular Hollywood actor and a symbol of military heroism.
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C.
John Hunt
John Hunt is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, exploration, and the arts.
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D.
W. W. Ambrose
W. W. Ambrose was an architect known for designing the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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E.
Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery was an Irish-born American Revolutionary War general best known for leading the failed 1775 American invasion of Quebec, during which he was killed in action.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 York Description of subject: Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sergeant York
linked to: Sergeant York
linked to: Sergeant York
subject linked to:
Howard