Kenyon Clutter
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Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenyon Clutter canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544888 — 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: Kenyon Clutter Context triple: [Clutter family murders, victim, Kenyon Clutter]
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A.
Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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B.
Nancy Clutter
Nancy Clutter is a popular, high-achieving teenage girl from a respected Kansas family whose tragic murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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C.
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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D.
Richard Hickock
Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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E.
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.
- 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: Kenyon Clutter Target entity description: Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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A.
Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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B.
Nancy Clutter
Nancy Clutter is a popular, high-achieving teenage girl from a respected Kansas family whose tragic murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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C.
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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D.
Richard Hickock
Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
murder victim
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person ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 15 ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | 1959 Clutter family murders ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1959-11-15 ⓘ |
| describedIn | In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalizationOf | character Kenyon Clutter in In Cold Blood adaptations ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkDescribing | true crime ⓘ |
| givenName | Kenyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | Herb Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Bonnie Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSister | Nancy Clutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Finney County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| memberOf | Clutter family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a victim in the Clutter family murders
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posthumous portrayal in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood ⓘ |
| perpetratorOfCrimeAgainst |
Perry Smith
NERFINISHED
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Richard Hickock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Holcomb, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Holcomb, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilm |
In Cold Blood (1967 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In Cold Blood (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residenceType | family farm ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOf | Clutter family murders 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: Kenyon Clutter Description of subject: Kenyon Clutter was a teenage member of the Clutter family whose 1959 murder in Holcomb, Kansas, became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.