Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
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Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed by Dirk Blocker on the World War II–themed television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg canonical | 4 |
| Lieutenant Jerry Bragg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6077408 — 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: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg Context triple: [Dirk Blocker, characterRole, Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg]
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A.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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B.
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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C.
Lt. Willard Slattery
Lt. Willard Slattery is the central protagonist of the novel and film "Slattery’s Hurricane," a former Navy pilot drawn into a dangerous mission amid a powerful storm while grappling with personal and moral conflicts.
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D.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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E.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
- 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: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg Target entity description: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed by Dirk Blocker on the World War II–themed television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron).
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A.
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Lt. Jim Bledsoe is a key U.S. Navy submarine officer in the World War II drama "Run Silent, Run Deep," known for his conflict with the commanding captain over tactics and command.
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B.
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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C.
Lt. Willard Slattery
Lt. Willard Slattery is the central protagonist of the novel and film "Slattery’s Hurricane," a former Navy pilot drawn into a dangerous mission amid a powerful storm while grappling with personal and moral conflicts.
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D.
Lieutenant Joe Clemons
Lieutenant Joe Clemons is the U.S. Army officer portrayed as the central combat leader in the Korean War drama film "Pork Chop Hill."
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E.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Black Sheep Squadron ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Black Sheep Squadron ⓘ |
| characterType | military officer character ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Bragg ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Baa Baa Black Sheep television universe ⓘ |
| fullName | Jerome Bragg ⓘ |
| genre |
war drama television series
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war television series ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerome ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
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Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nickname | Jerry ⓘ |
| occupation | Army officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dirk Blocker ⓘ |
| portrays | Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg ⓘ |
| rank | Lieutenant ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
World War II
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World War II ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg Description of subject: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg is a fictional U.S. Army officer portrayed by Dirk Blocker on the World War II–themed television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dennis Dirk
linked to: Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
subject linked to:
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
subject linked to:
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg
subject linked to:
Lieutenant Jerome "Jerry" Bragg