Herb Clutter
E202294
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herb Clutter canonical | 4 |
| Herbert Clutter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794641 — 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: Herb Clutter Context triple: [In Cold Blood, mainCharacters, Herb Clutter]
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A.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
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B.
Jane Parker
Jane Parker was the mother of British cavalry officer and politician Banastre Tarleton, a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Mary Corey
Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
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D.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
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E.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
- 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: Herb Clutter Target entity description: Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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A.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
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B.
Jane Parker
Jane Parker was the mother of British cavalry officer and politician Banastre Tarleton, a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Mary Corey
Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
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D.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
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E.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Herb Clutter Description of subject: Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Herbert Clutter