Johnny Rico
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Johnny Rico is the fictional protagonist and Mobile Infantry soldier in Robert A. Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," best known from the 1997 film adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny Rico canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T879138 — 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: Johnny Rico Context triple: [Casper Van Dien, portrayed, Johnny Rico]
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A.
Alfredo Keil
Alfredo Keil was a Portuguese composer and painter best known for writing the music of Portugal’s national anthem, "A Portuguesa."
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B.
Elvin
Elvin is a masculine given name most notably associated with Hall of Fame basketball player Elvin Hayes.
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C.
Charly Baltimore
Charly Baltimore is a lethal, amnesiac secret agent who gradually uncovers her true identity in the action thriller film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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D.
Tino Rossi
Tino Rossi was a celebrated French singer and actor of Corsican origin, renowned for his romantic ballads and popular mid-20th-century recordings.
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E.
Reo Fortune
Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.
- 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: Johnny Rico Target entity description: Johnny Rico is the fictional protagonist and Mobile Infantry soldier in Robert A. Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," best known from the 1997 film adaptation.
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A.
Alfredo Keil
Alfredo Keil was a Portuguese composer and painter best known for writing the music of Portugal’s national anthem, "A Portuguesa."
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B.
Elvin
Elvin is a masculine given name most notably associated with Hall of Fame basketball player Elvin Hayes.
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C.
Charly Baltimore
Charly Baltimore is a lethal, amnesiac secret agent who gradually uncovers her true identity in the action thriller film "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
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D.
Tino Rossi
Tino Rossi was a celebrated French singer and actor of Corsican origin, renowned for his romantic ballads and popular mid-20th-century recordings.
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E.
Reo Fortune
Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Terran Federation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Juan "Johnny" Rico ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Starship Troopers
ⓘ
Starship Troopers (1997 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation ⓘ Starship Troopers 3: Marauder ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Starship Troopers (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Starship Troopers
|
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | Terran Federation citizen ⓘ |
| conflict | Bug War ⓘ |
| creator | Robert A. Heinlein ⓘ |
| education | Military training at Mobile Infantry boot camp ⓘ |
| enemy | Arachnids ⓘ |
| familyBackground | wealthy family ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Starship Troopers universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Starship Troopers
|
| firstAppearance |
Starship Troopers (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Starship Troopers
|
| firstAppearanceYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| fullName | Juan Rico ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeCity | Buenos Aires ⓘ |
| homeCountry | Terran Federation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
animated adaptation
ⓘ
live-action film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Mobile Infantry ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator in the novel ⓘ |
| nationality | Filipino ⓘ |
| occupation |
Mobile Infantry soldier
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Casper Van Dien
ⓘ
Casper Van Dien in Starship Troopers (1997 film) ⓘ Casper Van Dien in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder ⓘ David Bacon in Starship Troopers (animated series) ⓘ |
| preServiceStatus | civilian of the Terran Federation ⓘ |
| rank |
Colonel
ⓘ
Corporal ⓘ Lieutenant ⓘ Private ⓘ Sergeant ⓘ |
| setting | future militaristic society ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| themeAssociation | citizenship and military service ⓘ |
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: Johnny Rico Description of subject: Johnny Rico is the fictional protagonist and Mobile Infantry soldier in Robert A. Heinlein’s "Starship Troopers," best known from the 1997 film adaptation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.