Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant
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Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant is the fictional Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot who serves as the central protagonist in the 1941 British war film "Ships with Wings."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22102286 — 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: Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant Context triple: [Ships with Wings, mainCharacter, Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant]
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Lieutenant Robert Maynard
Lieutenant Robert Maynard was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the 1718 naval engagement that resulted in the death of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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B.
Lieutenant Donald Lewis
Lieutenant Donald Lewis was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, a group of undercover agents operating in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed by Dirk Blocker on the World War II–themed television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron).
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D.
Lieutenant Ferguson Howard
Lieutenant Ferguson Howard is the central naval officer protagonist in the comedic caper film "The Honeymoon Machine," whose scheme to use a Navy computer to predict roulette outcomes drives the plot’s misadventures.
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E.
Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball
Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer involved in early Pacific voyages during the era of Australian colonization.
- 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: Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant Target entity description: Lieutenant David J. "Davy" Grant is the fictional Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot who serves as the central protagonist in the 1941 British war film "Ships with Wings."
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A.
Lieutenant Robert Maynard
Lieutenant Robert Maynard was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the 1718 naval engagement that resulted in the death of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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B.
Lieutenant Donald Lewis
Lieutenant Donald Lewis was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, a group of undercover agents operating in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed by Dirk Blocker on the World War II–themed television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron).
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D.
Lieutenant Ferguson Howard
Lieutenant Ferguson Howard is the central naval officer protagonist in the comedic caper film "The Honeymoon Machine," whose scheme to use a Navy computer to predict roulette outcomes drives the plot’s misadventures.
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E.
Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball
Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer involved in early Pacific voyages during the era of Australian colonization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.