Platoon
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"Platoon" is a 1986 war film directed by Oliver Stone that offers a gritty, realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a young American soldier.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Platoon canonical | 47 |
| Platoon (film) | 2 |
| Oliver Stone Vietnam War film trilogy | 1 |
| Oliver Stone Vietnam War trilogy | 1 |
| Oliver Stone filmography | 1 |
| Oliver Stone's Vietnam War trilogy | 1 |
| Platoon (1986 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T535873 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Platoon Context triple: [Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, notableWinner, Platoon]
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A.
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a landmark 1979 war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, renowned for its hallucinatory portrayal of the Vietnam War and its central place in the New Hollywood era.
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B.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film directed by Michael Cimino that explores the psychological and emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small industrial town.
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C.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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D.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 World War II epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg, renowned for its harrowing depiction of the D-Day invasion and a mission to rescue a paratrooper behind enemy lines.
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E.
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 cult vigilante action film about two Irish-American brothers who embark on a violent mission to rid Boston of organized crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Platoon Target entity description: "Platoon" is a 1986 war film directed by Oliver Stone that offers a gritty, realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a young American soldier.
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A.
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a landmark 1979 war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, renowned for its hallucinatory portrayal of the Vietnam War and its central place in the New Hollywood era.
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B.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film directed by Michael Cimino that explores the psychological and emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small industrial town.
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C.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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D.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 World War II epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg, renowned for its harrowing depiction of the D-Day invasion and a mission to rescue a paratrooper behind enemy lines.
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E.
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 cult vigilante action film about two Irish-American brothers who embark on a violent mission to rid Boston of organized crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Platoon Description of subject: "Platoon" is a 1986 war film directed by Oliver Stone that offers a gritty, realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a young American soldier.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Orion Pictures (later under MGM control)
subject linked to:
Orion Pictures (later under MGM control)
linked to: Platoon
subject linked to:
Orion
linked to: Platoon
linked to: Platoon
subject linked to:
Sheen–Estevez family
linked to: Platoon
linked to: Platoon