Colonel Hays Hodges
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Colonel Hays Hodges is a seasoned U.S. Marine Corps officer and lawyer who serves as the central protagonist in the military courtroom drama film "Rules of Engagement."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Hays Hodges canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7630953 — 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: Colonel Hays Hodges Context triple: [Rules of Engagement, mainCharacter, Colonel Hays Hodges]
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A.
J. F. Lawton
J. F. Lawton is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing the hit romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" and several successful action films.
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B.
Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
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C.
William F. Raborn Jr.
William F. Raborn Jr. was a U.S. Navy vice admiral and intelligence official who served as Director of Central Intelligence in the mid-1960s.
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D.
Colonel Oran K. Henderson
Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
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E.
W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
- 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: Colonel Hays Hodges Target entity description: Colonel Hays Hodges is a seasoned U.S. Marine Corps officer and lawyer who serves as the central protagonist in the military courtroom drama film "Rules of Engagement."
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A.
J. F. Lawton
J. F. Lawton is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing the hit romantic comedy "Pretty Woman" and several successful action films.
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B.
Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
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C.
William F. Raborn Jr.
William F. Raborn Jr. was a U.S. Navy vice admiral and intelligence official who served as Director of Central Intelligence in the mid-1960s.
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D.
Colonel Oran K. Henderson
Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
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E.
W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Rules of Engagement ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
duty and loyalty
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military ethics ⓘ rules of engagement in combat ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Middle East deployment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Rules of Engagement ⓘ |
| defendsCharacter | Colonel Terry Childers ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
legal drama
ⓘ
military courtroom drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalRole | defense attorney ⓘ |
| legalSpecialization | military law ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | motion picture ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | career officer ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
experienced trial lawyer
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loyalty to fellow Marines ⓘ seasoned combat experience ⓘ |
| occupation |
United States Marine Corps officer
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tommy Lee Jones ⓘ |
| primaryActivityInWork | conducting court-martial defense ⓘ |
| rank | Colonel ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingContext | U.S. military justice system ⓘ |
| workTypeAppearsIn | film ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2000 ⓘ |
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: Colonel Hays Hodges Description of subject: Colonel Hays Hodges is a seasoned U.S. Marine Corps officer and lawyer who serves as the central protagonist in the military courtroom drama film "Rules of Engagement."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.