The Big Trail
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The Big Trail is a 1930 American epic Western film, notable for its early use of widescreen technology and for featuring one of John Wayne’s first leading roles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Trail canonical | 12 |
| The Big Trail (1930 film) | 1 |
| The Big Trail by Hal G. Evarts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T890789 — 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: The Big Trail Context triple: [Raoul Walsh, notableWork, The Big Trail]
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A.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
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C.
The Old Stagecoach
The Old Stagecoach is a celebrated 19th-century genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson, depicting children playfully transforming an abandoned stagecoach into an imaginative setting for their games.
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D.
Lion of the West
Lion of the West was the famous nickname of Boer general Koos de la Rey, celebrated for his leadership and tactical brilliance during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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E.
The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse is the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, renowned for his durability, power hitting, and record-setting consecutive games played streak.
- 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: The Big Trail Target entity description: The Big Trail is a 1930 American epic Western film, notable for its early use of widescreen technology and for featuring one of John Wayne’s first leading roles.
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A.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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B.
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
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C.
The Old Stagecoach
The Old Stagecoach is a celebrated 19th-century genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson, depicting children playfully transforming an abandoned stagecoach into an imaginative setting for their games.
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D.
Lion of the West
Lion of the West was the famous nickname of Boer general Koos de la Rey, celebrated for his leadership and tactical brilliance during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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E.
The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse is the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, renowned for his durability, power hitting, and record-setting consecutive games played streak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Big Trail Description of subject: The Big Trail is a 1930 American epic Western film, notable for its early use of widescreen technology and for featuring one of John Wayne’s first leading roles.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Raoul Walsh
subject surface form:
Raoul Walsh
this entity surface form:
The Big Trail by Hal G. Evarts
subject surface form:
Tyrone Power Sr.
this entity surface form:
The Big Trail (1930 film)