Major Warden
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Major Warden is a determined and pragmatic British commando officer in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," involved in the mission to destroy the Japanese railway bridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Warden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12870844 — 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: Major Warden Context triple: [The Bridge on the River Kwai, featuresCharacter, Major Warden]
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A.
Junior Grand Warden
The Junior Grand Warden is a principal elected officer in a Masonic Grand Lodge, ranking below the Senior Grand Warden and assisting in the governance and ceremonial functions of the jurisdiction.
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B.
Junior Warden
The Junior Warden is a principal officer in a Masonic lodge responsible for overseeing the lodge during refreshment and assisting in maintaining order and harmony among the members.
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C.
Prime Warden
The Prime Warden is the annually elected chief officer and ceremonial head of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the historic livery companies of the City of London.
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D.
Major Vonreg
Major Vonreg is a crimson-armored First Order TIE pilot and antagonist in the animated series Star Wars Resistance.
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E.
Major Wilshaw
Major Wilshaw is a middle-aged, somewhat reserved Englishman whose romantic misadventures and emotional awakening form a central thread of the 1995 film "A Month by the Lake."
- 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: Major Warden Target entity description: Major Warden is a determined and pragmatic British commando officer in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," involved in the mission to destroy the Japanese railway bridge.
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A.
Junior Grand Warden
The Junior Grand Warden is a principal elected officer in a Masonic Grand Lodge, ranking below the Senior Grand Warden and assisting in the governance and ceremonial functions of the jurisdiction.
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B.
Junior Warden
The Junior Warden is a principal officer in a Masonic lodge responsible for overseeing the lodge during refreshment and assisting in maintaining order and harmony among the members.
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C.
Prime Warden
The Prime Warden is the annually elected chief officer and ceremonial head of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the historic livery companies of the City of London.
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D.
Major Vonreg
Major Vonreg is a crimson-armored First Order TIE pilot and antagonist in the animated series Star Wars Resistance.
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E.
Major Wilshaw
Major Wilshaw is a middle-aged, somewhat reserved Englishman whose romantic misadventures and emotional awakening form a central thread of the 1995 film "A Month by the Lake."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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commando ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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linked to:
novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
The Bridge over the River Kwai (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
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| associatedWith | Allied special operations ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from Pierre Boulle's novel The Bridge over the River Kwai ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
determined
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mission-focused ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| goal | destroy the Japanese railway bridge over the River Kwai ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the sabotage mission against the River Kwai bridge ⓘ |
| occupation | commando officer ⓘ |
| opposes | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | willing to make hard decisions for operational success ⓘ |
| rank | Major ⓘ |
| roleInWork | leader of the commando mission to destroy the railway bridge ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Burma Railway ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Commander Shears
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other Allied commandos ⓘ |
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: Major Warden Description of subject: Major Warden is a determined and pragmatic British commando officer in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," involved in the mission to destroy the Japanese railway bridge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"