Active Service
E100538
"Active Service" is a lesser-known novel by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of war, duty, and personal transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Active Service canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838720 — 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: Active Service Context triple: [Stephen Crane, wrote, Active Service]
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A.
Active Cosmetics Division
Active Cosmetics Division is a L'Oréal business unit specializing in dermatological skincare brands often distributed through pharmacies and healthcare professionals.
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B.
SVC
SVC is scikit-learn’s implementation of a Support Vector Machine classifier used for supervised learning tasks such as binary and multiclass classification.
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C.
Service Broker
Service Broker is a SQL Server feature that provides native support for reliable, asynchronous messaging and queuing within database applications.
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D.
Internal Military Service
Internal Military Service was a security and military police formation within the Polish People’s Army responsible for internal order, discipline, and political control in communist-era Poland.
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E.
CHED
CHED is the commonly used abbreviation for the Division of Chemical Education, a professional organization focused on advancing the teaching and learning of chemistry.
- 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: Active Service Target entity description: "Active Service" is a lesser-known novel by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of war, duty, and personal transformation.
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A.
Active Cosmetics Division
Active Cosmetics Division is a L'Oréal business unit specializing in dermatological skincare brands often distributed through pharmacies and healthcare professionals.
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B.
SVC
SVC is scikit-learn’s implementation of a Support Vector Machine classifier used for supervised learning tasks such as binary and multiclass classification.
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C.
Service Broker
Service Broker is a SQL Server feature that provides native support for reliable, asynchronous messaging and queuing within database applications.
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D.
Internal Military Service
Internal Military Service was a security and military police formation within the Polish People’s Army responsible for internal order, discipline, and political control in communist-era Poland.
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E.
CHED
CHED is the commonly used abbreviation for the Division of Chemical Education, a professional organization focused on advancing the teaching and learning of chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Crane ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
combat experience
ⓘ
military life ⓘ psychological effects of war ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between personal safety and duty
ⓘ
impact of war on individual identity ⓘ social pressures within the military ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
ⓘ
war novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Stephen Crane ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Fuselli
ⓘ
other American soldiers ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Active Service ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American realism
ⓘ
linked to:
Realism
|
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor | The Red Badge of Courage ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
courage
ⓘ
duty ⓘ fear ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ personal transformation ⓘ war ⓘ |
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: Active Service Description of subject: "Active Service" is a lesser-known novel by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of war, duty, and personal transformation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.