Captain Tanner
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Captain Tanner is a fictional character portrayed by Scottish actor Clive Russell, likely a military or naval officer featured in film or television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Tanner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5253130 — 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 Tanner Context triple: [Clive Russell, playedCharacter, Captain Tanner]
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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 Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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C.
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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D.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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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 Tanner Target entity description: Captain Tanner is a fictional character portrayed by Scottish actor Clive Russell, likely a military or naval officer featured in film or television.
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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 Nelson
Captain Nelson is the fictional U.S. Army paratroop officer who serves as the central protagonist in the World War II film "Objective, Burma!".
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C.
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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D.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
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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 (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfActor | Scotland ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | film and television ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tanner ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Captain ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Clive Russell ⓘ |
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 Tanner Description of subject: Captain Tanner is a fictional character portrayed by Scottish actor Clive Russell, likely a military or naval officer featured in film or television.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.