Captain Ballard
E1027893
Captain Ballard is a character on the teen comedy-drama series "Breaker High," serving as the ship’s captain and authority figure aboard the high school-at-sea setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Ballard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13222105 — 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: Captain Ballard Context triple: [Breaker High, hasMainCharacter, Captain Ballard]
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A.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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B.
Captain Stanley
Captain Stanley is a central character in the Australian bushranger film "The Proposition," serving as a conflicted lawman trying to impose order in a brutal and lawless frontier.
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C.
Captain Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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D.
Captain W. A. Ross
Captain W. A. Ross was a British colonial official known for inaugurating Mapo Hall, a prominent historic civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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E.
Captain Jonas Grumby
Captain Jonas Grumby is the bumbling but well-meaning Skipper of the S.S. Minnow on the classic American television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
- 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: Captain Ballard Target entity description: Captain Ballard is a character on the teen comedy-drama series "Breaker High," serving as the ship’s captain and authority figure aboard the high school-at-sea setting.
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A.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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B.
Captain Stanley
Captain Stanley is a central character in the Australian bushranger film "The Proposition," serving as a conflicted lawman trying to impose order in a brutal and lawless frontier.
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C.
Captain Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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D.
Captain W. A. Ross
Captain W. A. Ross was a British colonial official known for inaugurating Mapo Hall, a prominent historic civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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E.
Captain Jonas Grumby
Captain Jonas Grumby is the bumbling but well-meaning Skipper of the S.S. Minnow on the classic American television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Breaker High ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| appearsInTelevisionEpisodeCount | multiple episodes of Breaker High ⓘ |
| appearsInTelevisionSeasonCount | 1 ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Canada ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | teen comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Captain ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
adult authority figure
ⓘ
disciplinarian for students ⓘ |
| occupation | ship captain ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Breaker High universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Breaker High (fictional high school)
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| responsibleFor |
operation of the school ship
ⓘ
safety of students and crew ⓘ |
| role | authority figure aboard the school ship ⓘ |
| setting | high school-at-sea program ⓘ |
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: Captain Ballard Description of subject: Captain Ballard is a character on the teen comedy-drama series "Breaker High," serving as the ship’s captain and authority figure aboard the high school-at-sea setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Captain Ballard – Andrew Airlie