Lance Corporal Blake
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Lance Corporal Blake is a young British World War I soldier who serves as one of the central protagonists in the 2019 war film "1917."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lance Corporal Blake canonical | 1 |
| Lance Corporal Schofield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2673936 — 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: Lance Corporal Blake Context triple: [Dean-Charles Chapman, playedCharacter, Lance Corporal Blake]
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A.
Corporal Miller
Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
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B.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
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C.
Sergeant Croft
Sergeant Croft is a ruthless, battle-hardened platoon leader in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," embodying the brutal dehumanization of war.
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D.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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E.
Private James Francis Ryan
Private James Francis Ryan is the fictional World War II paratrooper whose rescue mission drives the plot of the film "Saving Private Ryan."
- 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: Lance Corporal Blake Target entity description: Lance Corporal Blake is a young British World War I soldier who serves as one of the central protagonists in the 2019 war film "1917."
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A.
Corporal Miller
Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
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B.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
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C.
Sergeant Croft
Sergeant Croft is a ruthless, battle-hardened platoon leader in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," embodying the brutal dehumanization of war.
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D.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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E.
Private James Francis Ryan
Private James Francis Ryan is the fictional World War II paratrooper whose rescue mission drives the plot of the film "Saving Private Ryan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Lance Corporal Blake Description of subject: Lance Corporal Blake is a young British World War I soldier who serves as one of the central protagonists in the 2019 war film "1917."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lance Corporal Blake