Commander George Ericson
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Commander George Ericson is the stoic, duty-bound Royal Navy officer who commands a corvette in Nicholas Monsarrat’s World War II novel "The Cruel Sea," embodying the hardships and moral burdens of the Battle of the Atlantic.
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| Commander George Ericson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21715968 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Commander George Ericson Context triple: [The Cruel Sea, mainCharacter, Commander George Ericson]
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Commander Nicholas Lockyer
Commander Nicholas Lockyer was a British Royal Navy officer noted for leading the successful boat assault against American gunboats at the Battle of Lake Borgne during the War of 1812.
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Commander Joseph Lawrence
Commander Joseph Lawrence is a high-ranking, morally ambiguous Gilead official in the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
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Commander Fred Waterford
Commander Fred Waterford is a high-ranking, authoritarian official in the Republic of Gilead and the primary male antagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel and its television adaptation, The Handmaid’s Tale.
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E.
Commander Russell Taylor
Commander Russell Taylor is a fictional high-ranking LAPD officer and division commander portrayed by Robert Gossett on the television series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commander George Ericson Target entity description: Commander George Ericson is the stoic, duty-bound Royal Navy officer who commands a corvette in Nicholas Monsarrat’s World War II novel "The Cruel Sea," embodying the hardships and moral burdens of the Battle of the Atlantic.
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A.
Commander Nicholas Lockyer
Commander Nicholas Lockyer was a British Royal Navy officer noted for leading the successful boat assault against American gunboats at the Battle of Lake Borgne during the War of 1812.
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B.
Commander Joseph Lawrence
Commander Joseph Lawrence is a high-ranking, morally ambiguous Gilead official in the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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C.
Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
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D.
Commander Fred Waterford
Commander Fred Waterford is a high-ranking, authoritarian official in the Republic of Gilead and the primary male antagonist in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel and its television adaptation, The Handmaid’s Tale.
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E.
Commander Russell Taylor
Commander Russell Taylor is a fictional high-ranking LAPD officer and division commander portrayed by Robert Gossett on the television series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes."
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.