John Tunstall

E400252

British emigrant to the United States merchant person rancher

John Tunstall was a British-born rancher and merchant in New Mexico whose 1878 murder helped spark the Lincoln County War.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
John Tunstall canonical	4
John Henry Tunstall	3

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British emigrant to the United States ⓘ merchant ⓘ person ⓘ rancher ⓘ
ageAtDeath	24 ⓘ
associatedWith	Billy the Kid ⓘ
birthCountry	United Kingdom ⓘ
birthDate	1853-03-06 ⓘ
birthPlace	Hackney, London, England ⓘ
burialPlace	Lincoln, New Mexico Territory, United States ⓘ
businessPartner	Alexander McSween ⓘ
causeOfHistoricalSignificance	his killing escalated tensions leading to the Lincoln County War ⓘ
citizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
conflictWith	Murphy–Dolan faction ⓘ surface form: Murphy-Dolan faction in Lincoln County
countryOfActivity	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
deathCause	gunshot wound ⓘ
deathDate	1878-02-18 ⓘ
deathPlace	Lincoln County, New Mexico ⓘ surface form: Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, United States
employer	village of Lincoln, New Mexico ⓘ surface form: Tunstall & McSween store in Lincoln, New Mexico Territory
era	Old West ⓘ surface form: American Old West
familyName	Tunstall ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	John ⓘ
historicalPeriod	19th century ⓘ
influencedEvent	formation of the Regulators in Lincoln County ⓘ
killedBy	posse deputized by Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady ⓘ
knownFor	being a central figure in the Lincoln County War ⓘ his murder in 1878 in New Mexico Territory ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
legalStatusAtDeath	unarmed when killed ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	homicide ⓘ
name	John Tunstall self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: John Henry Tunstall
notableEvent	Lincoln County War ⓘ
occupation	cattleman ⓘ merchant ⓘ rancher ⓘ
opponent	James Dolan ⓘ Lawrence Murphy ⓘ
owned	a ranch on the Rio Feliz in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory ⓘ
parentOccupation	merchant ⓘ
regionOfActivity	New Mexico Territory ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ
residence	Lincoln County, New Mexico ⓘ surface form: Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, United States
yearOfImmigrationToUnitedStates	1876 ⓘ

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: John Tunstall
Description of subject: John Tunstall was a British-born rancher and merchant in New Mexico whose 1878 murder helped spark the Lincoln County War.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lincoln Historic District → significantPerson → John Tunstall ⓘ

Lincoln County War → notableParticipant → John Tunstall ⓘ

Lincoln County War → hasCasualties → John Tunstall ⓘ

village of Lincoln, New Mexico → associatedWithPerson → John Tunstall ⓘ

subject surface form: Lincoln, New Mexico

Tunstall Store → namedAfter → John Tunstall ⓘ

this entity surface form: John Henry Tunstall

Tunstall Store → associatedWithPerson → John Tunstall ⓘ

this entity surface form: John Henry Tunstall

John Tunstall → name → John Tunstall self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: John Henry Tunstall