Captain Michael D. Steele
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Captain Michael D. Steele is a U.S. Army officer best known as the real-life company commander depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Michael D. Steele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6028957 — 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 Michael D. Steele Context triple: [Jason Isaacs, characterPortrayed, Captain Michael D. Steele]
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A.
Cmdr. John M. Hoskins
Cmdr. John M. Hoskins is a fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed as the central figure in the World War II drama film "The Eternal Sea."
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B.
Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson
Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson is the determined and aggressive U.S. Navy submarine commander who leads a perilous undersea campaign against Japanese shipping in the World War II novel and film "Run Silent, Run Deep."
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C.
Captain Mike Yates
Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Admiral William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, renowned for overseeing high-profile special operations missions.
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E.
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
- 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 Michael D. Steele Target entity description: Captain Michael D. Steele is a U.S. Army officer best known as the real-life company commander depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
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A.
Cmdr. John M. Hoskins
Cmdr. John M. Hoskins is a fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed as the central figure in the World War II drama film "The Eternal Sea."
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B.
Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson
Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson is the determined and aggressive U.S. Navy submarine commander who leads a perilous undersea campaign against Japanese shipping in the World War II novel and film "Run Silent, Run Deep."
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C.
Captain Mike Yates
Captain Mike Yates is a UNIT officer and recurring ally of the Third Doctor in the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Admiral William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, renowned for overseeing high-profile special operations missions.
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E.
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| basedOn | character of the Ranger company commander in "Black Hawk Down" ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Mogadishu
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Somali Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Steele ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Operation Gothic Serpent ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notability | depiction in popular culture through "Black Hawk Down" ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding a company of U.S. Army Rangers during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 ⓘ |
| notableWork | real-life company commander depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down" ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
film "Black Hawk Down"
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linked to:
Black Hawk Down
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| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| role | company commander ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| unit |
U.S. Army Rangers
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linked to:
United States Army Rangers
|
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 Michael D. Steele Description of subject: Captain Michael D. Steele is a U.S. Army officer best known as the real-life company commander depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.