Sergeant King
E454316
Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergeant King canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567602 — 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: Sergeant King Context triple: [No Time for Sergeants (film), character, Sergeant King]
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A.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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C.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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D.
Sergeant Waters
Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
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E.
Sgt. Al Powell
Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
- 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: Sergeant King Target entity description: Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
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A.
Lieutenant Baugh
Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Sergeant Calhoun
Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
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C.
Lieutenant Hearn
Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
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D.
Sergeant Waters
Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
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E.
Sgt. Al Powell
Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | No Time for Sergeants ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
by-the-book
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tough ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| enforces | military regulations ⓘ |
| foilTo | naive protagonist ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | military comedy film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
provider of comic situations through strict discipline
ⓘ
source of conflict for protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | Air Force noncommissioned officer ⓘ |
| rank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | comic foil ⓘ |
| setting | United States Air Force basic training ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| workType | 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: Sergeant King Description of subject: Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
No Time for Sergeants