Gary Gilmore
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Gary Gilmore was an American criminal whose 1977 execution, the first in the U.S. after a decade-long moratorium, gained national attention and became the subject of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Gilmore canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620685 — 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: Gary Gilmore Context triple: [The Executioner’s Song, mainSubject, Gary Gilmore]
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A.
Calder Willingham
Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, satirical writing and contributions to several notable mid-20th-century films.
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B.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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C.
John Calley
John Calley was an American film studio executive and producer known for overseeing and producing numerous major Hollywood films, including the adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code."
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D.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
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E.
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.
- 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: Gary Gilmore Target entity description: Gary Gilmore was an American criminal whose 1977 execution, the first in the U.S. after a decade-long moratorium, gained national attention and became the subject of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song."
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A.
Calder Willingham
Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, satirical writing and contributions to several notable mid-20th-century films.
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B.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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C.
John Calley
John Calley was an American film studio executive and producer known for overseeing and producing numerous major Hollywood films, including the adaptation of "The Da Vinci Code."
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D.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American criminal
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Norman Mailer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1940-12-04 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by firing squad ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
armed robbery
ⓘ
murder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfExecution | 1977-01-17 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1977-01-17 ⓘ |
| deathPenaltyMoratoriumEndedWith | his execution in 1977 ⓘ |
| education | dropped out of high school ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| executedIn | Utah State Prison ⓘ |
| executionJurisdiction |
Utah
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Utah
|
| executionMethod | firing squad ⓘ |
| familyName | Gilmore ⓘ |
| fullName | Faye Robert Coffman ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAbout | nonfiction novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary ⓘ |
| hasWorkAbout | The Executioner’s Song ⓘ |
| incarceratedIn |
Oregon State Penitentiary
ⓘ
Utah State Prison ⓘ |
| influenced | public debate on the death penalty in the United States ⓘ |
| knownForQuote | Let’s do it ⓘ |
| lastWords | Let’s do it ⓘ |
| legalCase | Gregg v. Georgia context ⓘ |
| legalStatus | death row inmate ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | capital punishment ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | extensive national media attention in the United States ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first execution in the United States after the reinstatement of the death penalty in the 1970s ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first person executed in the United States after a decade-long moratorium on capital punishment ⓘ |
| occupation | criminal ⓘ |
| parent |
Bessie Gilmore
ⓘ
Frank Gilmore ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | McCamey, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Draper, Utah
ⓘ
surface form:
Draper, Utah, United States
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| portrayedBy | Tommy Lee Jones ⓘ |
| raisedIn |
Portland
ⓘ
surface form:
Portland, Oregon, United States
|
| religion | Mormon background ⓘ |
| sibling | Mikal Gilmore ⓘ |
| spouse | Nicole Baker ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
The Executioner’s Song
ⓘ
television film "The Executioner’s Song" ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| victimOfCrime |
Bennie Bushnell
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Max Jensen ⓘ |
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: Gary Gilmore Description of subject: Gary Gilmore was an American criminal whose 1977 execution, the first in the U.S. after a decade-long moratorium, gained national attention and became the subject of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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