Major Applegate
E365350
Major Applegate is a comic big-game hunter character in the classic screwball film "Bringing Up Baby."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Applegate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3511101 — 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: Major Applegate Context triple: [Bringing Up Baby, mainCharacter, Major Applegate]
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A.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Brig Owens
Brig Owens was an American professional football safety best known for his standout career with the Washington Redskins in the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Patrick Wheeler
Patrick Wheeler is a central character in the 2013 American drama film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," which explores love, crime, and sacrifice in rural Texas.
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D.
Major Roy Franklin
Major Roy Franklin is a British officer in the World War II adventure novel and film "The Guns of Navarone," whose injury and compromised status create a critical moral and tactical dilemma for the commando team.
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E.
Jesse Applegate
Jesse Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and leader in westward expansion, known for helping establish an alternative emigrant trail to Oregon.
- 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: Major Applegate Target entity description: Major Applegate is a comic big-game hunter character in the classic screwball film "Bringing Up Baby."
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A.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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B.
Brig Owens
Brig Owens was an American professional football safety best known for his standout career with the Washington Redskins in the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Patrick Wheeler
Patrick Wheeler is a central character in the 2013 American drama film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," which explores love, crime, and sacrifice in rural Texas.
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D.
Major Roy Franklin
Major Roy Franklin is a British officer in the World War II adventure novel and film "The Guns of Navarone," whose injury and compromised status create a critical moral and tactical dilemma for the commando team.
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E.
Jesse Applegate
Jesse Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and leader in westward expansion, known for helping establish an alternative emigrant trail to Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bringing Up Baby ⓘ |
| associatedWithAnimal | leopard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Bringing Up Baby ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Bringing Up Baby universe
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linked to:
Bringing Up Baby
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| filmGenre | screwball comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comic character ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | big-game hunter ⓘ |
| tone | humorous ⓘ |
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: Major Applegate Description of subject: Major Applegate is a comic big-game hunter character in the classic screwball film "Bringing Up Baby."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.