L. M. Kit Carson
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L. M. Kit Carson was an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker known for co-writing the film "Paris, Texas" and contributing to the independent cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L. M. Kit Carson canonical | 5 |
| Kit Carson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8970307 — 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: L. M. Kit Carson Context triple: [Hunter Carson, father, L. M. Kit Carson]
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A.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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B.
Christopher Carson
Christopher Carson is one of the sons of legendary American television host and comedian Johnny Carson.
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C.
Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen W. Kearny was a U.S. Army officer and frontier military leader best known for his role in the conquest of New Mexico and California during the Mexican–American War.
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D.
John M. Chivington
John M. Chivington was a Union Army officer and Methodist minister best known for leading the controversial Sand Creek Massacre against Cheyenne and Arapaho people during the American Indian Wars.
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E.
Charles Bent
Charles Bent was a 19th-century American trader and politician who became the first civilian governor of the New Mexico Territory under U.S. rule.
- 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: L. M. Kit Carson Target entity description: L. M. Kit Carson was an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker known for co-writing the film "Paris, Texas" and contributing to the independent cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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B.
Christopher Carson
Christopher Carson is one of the sons of legendary American television host and comedian Johnny Carson.
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C.
Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen W. Kearny was a U.S. Army officer and frontier military leader best known for his role in the conquest of New Mexico and California during the Mexican–American War.
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D.
John M. Chivington
John M. Chivington was a Union Army officer and Methodist minister best known for leading the controversial Sand Creek Massacre against Cheyenne and Arapaho people during the American Indian Wars.
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E.
Charles Bent
Charles Bent was a 19th-century American trader and politician who became the first civilian governor of the New Mexico Territory under U.S. rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| child | Hunter Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | American independent cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Breathless (1983 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-08-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-10-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| genre | independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lewis Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | American independent filmmakers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing Paris, Texas
ⓘ
work in American independent cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | L. M. Kit Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Kit Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breathless (1983 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Holzman’s Diary NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film critic ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ journalist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Irving, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dallas, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredIn | David Holzman’s Diary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | obituaries in major American newspapers ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Jim McBride
NERFINISHED
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Tobe Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Wim Wenders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: L. M. Kit Carson Description of subject: L. M. Kit Carson was an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker known for co-writing the film "Paris, Texas" and contributing to the independent cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
L. M. Kit Carson
subject surface form:
L. M. Kit Carson
this entity surface form:
Kit Carson