Norman Ellison
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Norman Ellison is a young, inexperienced assistant driver and gunner in the World War II tank crew depicted in the 2014 war film "Fury."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norman Ellison canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532738 — 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: Norman Ellison Context triple: [Fury, hasCharacter, Norman Ellison]
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A.
Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm was an American abstract expressionist painter known for his dynamic, gestural canvases that bridged action painting and lyrical abstraction.
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B.
Bill L. Norton
Bill L. Norton is an American film and television director and screenwriter known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s, including projects in both feature films and popular TV series.
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C.
Norman Shields
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
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D.
Alan E. Nourse
Alan E. Nourse was an American science fiction author and physician known for works that often explored medical and social themes, including the novel "The Bladerunner."
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E.
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee is a longtime American university administrator best known for serving multiple terms as president of several major institutions, including West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Vanderbilt University.
- 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: Norman Ellison Target entity description: Norman Ellison is a young, inexperienced assistant driver and gunner in the World War II tank crew depicted in the 2014 war film "Fury."
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A.
Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm was an American abstract expressionist painter known for his dynamic, gestural canvases that bridged action painting and lyrical abstraction.
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B.
Bill L. Norton
Bill L. Norton is an American film and television director and screenwriter known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s, including projects in both feature films and popular TV series.
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C.
Norman Shields
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
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D.
Alan E. Nourse
Alan E. Nourse was an American science fiction author and physician known for works that often explored medical and social themes, including the novel "The Bladerunner."
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E.
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee is a longtime American university administrator best known for serving multiple terms as president of several major institutions, including West Virginia University, Ohio State University, and Vanderbilt University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Fury ⓘ |
| characterArc | becomes hardened by combat experiences ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
inexperienced
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young ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewComrade |
Boyd "Bible" Swan
ⓘ
Don "Wardaddy" Collier ⓘ Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis ⓘ Trini "Gordo" Garcia ⓘ |
| filmDirector | David Ayer ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | war film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fury tank crew ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | audience surrogate ⓘ |
| occupation |
assistant driver
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bow gunner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Logan Lerman ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Don "Wardaddy" Collier ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | April 1945 ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
loss of innocence
ⓘ
psychological impact of war ⓘ |
| vehicle |
M4A3E8 Sherman tank
ⓘ
linked to:
M4 Sherman tank
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| weapon | .30 caliber bow machine gun ⓘ |
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: Norman Ellison Description of subject: Norman Ellison is a young, inexperienced assistant driver and gunner in the World War II tank crew depicted in the 2014 war film "Fury."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.