Charles Starkweather
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Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Starkweather canonical | 1 |
| Starkweather | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7217598 — 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: Charles Starkweather Context triple: [Kit Carruthers, basedOn, Charles Starkweather]
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A.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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B.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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C.
Nathan Leopold
Nathan Leopold was an American criminal best known for participating in the infamous 1924 "Leopold and Loeb" murder case, in which he and Richard Loeb killed a young boy in a notorious attempt to commit the "perfect crime."
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D.
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- 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: Charles Starkweather Target entity description: Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
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A.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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B.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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C.
Nathan Leopold
Nathan Leopold was an American criminal best known for participating in the infamous 1924 "Leopold and Loeb" murder case, in which he and Richard Loeb killed a young boy in a notorious attempt to commit the "perfect crime."
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D.
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American criminal
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person ⓘ spree killer ⓘ |
| accomplice | Caril Ann Fugate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeYears | 1957-1958 ⓘ |
| apprehended | 1958-01-29 ⓘ |
| birthName | Charles Raymond Starkweather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by electric chair ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| crimeType | spree killing ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1959-06-25 ⓘ |
| education | Lincoln High School (dropped out) ⓘ |
| era | 1950s ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| executionMethod | electric chair ⓘ |
| familyName | Starkweather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstMurderYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Raymond Starkweather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| incarceratedIn | Nebraska State Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Bruce Springsteen song "Nebraska"
NERFINISHED
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character Kit Carruthers ⓘ character Mickey Knox ⓘ film "Badlands" NERFINISHED ⓘ film "Natural Born Killers" NERFINISHED ⓘ film "Starkweather" (2004) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastMurderYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| legalStatus | executed ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | extensive national media attention in the United States ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1958 murder spree in Nebraska and Wyoming ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1958 killing spree with teenage girlfriend ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Caril Ann Fugate (girlfriend) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfVictims | 11 ⓘ |
| occupation | garbage collector ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime | Caril Ann Fugate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfApprehension | Douglas, Wyoming, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | death ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateOfExecution | Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triedAt | Lancaster County District Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimCountInNebraska | 10 ⓘ |
| victimCountInWyoming | 1 ⓘ |
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: Charles Starkweather Description of subject: Charles Starkweather was a 1950s American spree killer whose notorious murder rampage with his teenage girlfriend inspired numerous films and fictional characters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kit Carruthers
this entity surface form:
Starkweather