Captain Stillman
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Captain Stillman is a bumbling, self-important U.S. Army officer portrayed by John Larroquette in the comedy film "Stripes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Stillman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4371542 — 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: Captain Stillman Context triple: [John Larroquette, characterPortrayed, Captain Stillman]
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A.
Captain Jenness
Captain Jenness is a fictional sea captain who appears as a central character in William Dean Howells's novel "The Lady of the Aroostook."
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
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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D.
Captain Singleton
Captain Singleton is an early 18th-century adventure novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the seafaring exploits, piracy, and moral evolution of its titular protagonist.
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E.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
- 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: Captain Stillman Target entity description: Captain Stillman is a bumbling, self-important U.S. Army officer portrayed by John Larroquette in the comedy film "Stripes."
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A.
Captain Jenness
Captain Jenness is a fictional sea captain who appears as a central character in William Dean Howells's novel "The Lady of the Aroostook."
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B.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
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C.
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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D.
Captain Singleton
Captain Singleton is an early 18th-century adventure novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the seafaring exploits, piracy, and moral evolution of its titular protagonist.
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E.
Captain Davenport
Captain Davenport is a principled Black Army officer in the film "A Soldier's Story" who investigates the murder of a fellow soldier amid racial tensions on a segregated World War II-era base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stripes ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Stripes ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bumbling
ⓘ
self-important ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Stripes universe ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film character ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Captain Stillman ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGenreOfWork | military comedy ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
comic relief character
ⓘ
incompetent leadership ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Stripes (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Stripes
|
| portrayedBy | John Larroquette ⓘ |
| portrayedByInWork | John Larroquette in Stripes ⓘ |
| rank | Captain ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1981 ⓘ |
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: Captain Stillman Description of subject: Captain Stillman is a bumbling, self-important U.S. Army officer portrayed by John Larroquette in the comedy film "Stripes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.