McHale's Navy
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McHale's Navy is a 1960s American television sitcom about the comedic misadventures of a World War II PT boat crew in the South Pacific.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McHale's Navy canonical | 6 |
| McHale's Navy (1997 film) | 3 |
| McHale's Navy (1964 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2693901 — 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: McHale's Navy Context triple: [Gavin MacLeod, appearedIn, McHale's Navy]
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A.
Captain General
Captain General was the highest-ranking military and often civil authority in various Spanish territories, combining supreme command over armed forces with broad administrative powers.
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B.
Bluejacket
Bluejacket is the nickname and mascot representing the athletic teams and student body of Hibbing High School in Minnesota.
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C.
Mister Roberts
Mister Roberts is a 1955 naval comedy-drama film, based on the hit play, best known for its ensemble cast including Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon in an Oscar-winning role.
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D.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Derek Jeter, the longtime New York Yankees shortstop and team leader renowned for his clutch performances and five World Series titles.
- 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: McHale's Navy Target entity description: McHale's Navy is a 1960s American television sitcom about the comedic misadventures of a World War II PT boat crew in the South Pacific.
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A.
Captain General
Captain General was the highest-ranking military and often civil authority in various Spanish territories, combining supreme command over armed forces with broad administrative powers.
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B.
Bluejacket
Bluejacket is the nickname and mascot representing the athletic teams and student body of Hibbing High School in Minnesota.
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C.
Mister Roberts
Mister Roberts is a 1955 naval comedy-drama film, based on the hit play, best known for its ensemble cast including Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon in an Oscar-winning role.
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D.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Derek Jeter, the longtime New York Yankees shortstop and team leader renowned for his clutch performances and five World Series titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: McHale's Navy Description of subject: McHale's Navy is a 1960s American television sitcom about the comedic misadventures of a World War II PT boat crew in the South Pacific.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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