Wild Bill Hickok
E223400
American frontiersman
United States Army scout
Wild West figure
folk hero
gambler
gunfighter
human
lawman
scout
Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wild Bill Hickok canonical | 10 |
| James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok | 1 |
| James Butler Hickok | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1997474 — 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: Wild Bill Hickok Context triple: [Wild West, notablePerson, Wild Bill Hickok]
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A.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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B.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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C.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- 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: Wild Bill Hickok Target entity description: Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
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A.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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B.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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C.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American frontiersman
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United States Army scout ⓘ Wild West figure ⓘ folk hero ⓘ gambler ⓘ gunfighter ⓘ human ⓘ lawman ⓘ scout ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dead Man's Hand (poker hand) ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1837-05-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1876-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1876-03-05 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Wild Bill Hickok
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
James Butler Hickok
|
| hasHeritage | English-American ⓘ |
| influenced | mythology of the American Old West ⓘ |
| killedBy | Jack McCall ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| nickname | Wild Bill ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
American Civil War service as a scout and spy
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service as marshal of Abilene, Kansas ⓘ shot while playing poker ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
carried a pair of Colt 1851 Navy revolvers
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expert marksman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)
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gunfight with Davis Tutt ⓘ |
| occupation |
gambler
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gunslinger ⓘ lawman ⓘ marshal ⓘ scout ⓘ sheriff ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Illinois
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ Troy Grove, Illinois ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Deadwood, South Dakota
ⓘ
surface form:
Deadwood, Dakota Territory
Deadwood, South Dakota ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Wild West show
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surface form:
Wild West shows
numerous dime novels ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
marshal of Abilene, Kansas
ⓘ
sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
Abilene, Kansas, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Abilene, Kansas
Deadwood, South Dakota ⓘ
surface form:
Deadwood, Dakota Territory
Hays, Kansas ⓘ
surface form:
Hays City, Kansas
|
| servedIn | Union Army ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnes Thatcher Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Wild Bill Hickok Description of subject: Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Butler Hickok
this entity surface form:
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok