Admiral Shane
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Admiral Shane is a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer and key military leader in the science fiction action film "Battleship."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Admiral Shane canonical | 1 |
| Admiral Terrance Shane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3783782 — 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: Admiral Shane Context triple: [Battleship, character, Admiral Shane]
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A.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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B.
Admiral John de Robeck
Admiral John de Robeck was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the Allied fleet during the World War I campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles.
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C.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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D.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
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E.
Admiral James Buck
Admiral James Buck was a United States Navy flag officer honored for his service by having the destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) named after him.
- 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: Admiral Shane Target entity description: Admiral Shane is a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer and key military leader in the science fiction action film "Battleship."
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A.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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B.
Admiral John de Robeck
Admiral John de Robeck was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the Allied fleet during the World War I campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles.
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C.
Commander Judd
Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
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D.
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is a gruff but loyal San Francisco police captain who serves as Adrian Monk’s long-suffering boss and friend in the television series "Monk."
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E.
Admiral James Buck
Admiral James Buck was a United States Navy flag officer honored for his service by having the destroyer USS Buck (DD-420) named after him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Battleship ⓘ |
| basedOn | loosely inspired by the board game Battleship ⓘ |
| branchOfService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| commandsDuring | alien invasion (within the film’s story) ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
the film Battleship
ⓘ
linked to:
Battleship
|
| directorOfWork | Peter Berg ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Battleship film universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Battleship
|
| filmReleaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| genreContext | military science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver |
U.S. Pacific Fleet (within the film’s story)
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Pacific Fleet
|
| hasFamilyRelation | father of Samantha Shane ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Admiral ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | key military leader ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Navy officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Liam Neeson ⓘ |
| positionHeld | senior naval commander ⓘ |
| screenwriterCreator |
Erich Hoeber
ⓘ
Jon Hoeber ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre |
action film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
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: Admiral Shane Description of subject: Admiral Shane is a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer and key military leader in the science fiction action film "Battleship."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Admiral Shane