Marshal Sam Mackenna
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Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marshal Sam Mackenna canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7364236 — 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: Marshal Sam Mackenna Context triple: [Mackenna's Gold, character, Marshal Sam Mackenna]
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A.
Marshal Will Kane
Marshal Will Kane is the principled, embattled lawman at the center of the classic Western film "High Noon," known for facing a deadly showdown alone when his town abandons him.
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B.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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C.
Marshal Jourdan
Marshal Jourdan was a prominent French military commander of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his role in key campaigns and eventual elevation to Marshal of France.
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D.
Colonel McCormick
Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the Chindits, the special forces long-range penetration units operating behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
- 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: Marshal Sam Mackenna Target entity description: Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
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A.
Marshal Will Kane
Marshal Will Kane is the principled, embattled lawman at the center of the classic Western film "High Noon," known for facing a deadly showdown alone when his town abandons him.
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B.
Marshal Pentecost
Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
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C.
Marshal Jourdan
Marshal Jourdan was a prominent French military commander of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his role in key campaigns and eventual elevation to Marshal of France.
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D.
Colonel McCormick
Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne
Brigadier Joe Lentaigne was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the Chindits, the special forces long-range penetration units operating behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptationFrom | novel "Mackenna's Gold" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mackenna's Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apache gold
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Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel "Mackenna's Gold" by Will Henry ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
reluctant
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tough ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man vs man
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man vs nature ⓘ man vs self ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalCitizenship | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | screenwriter Carl Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | Mackenna's Gold (1969 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Mackenna's Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | J. Lee Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Mackenna's Gold (1969) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedInFictionalEvent | quest for Apache gold ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | reluctant hero ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableRelationship | antagonistic relationship with outlaw John Colorado ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawman
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marshal ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gregory Peck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | survival ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | Mackenna's Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondaryMotivation | duty as a lawman ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | revolver ⓘ |
| workOfFictionGenre | Western film ⓘ |
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: Marshal Sam Mackenna Description of subject: Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.