Robert Newton Ford
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Robert Newton Ford was an American outlaw best known for killing Jesse James, an act that made him infamous in the history of the Old West.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Newton Ford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9105842 — 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: Robert Newton Ford Context triple: [Bob Ford, fullName, Robert Newton Ford]
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A.
Jack Ford
Jack Ford is the nickname of John Ford, the legendary American film director renowned for his influential Westerns and multiple Academy Awards.
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B.
John Gardner Ford
John Gardner Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford, known as a member of the Ford family.
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C.
Frank Ford
Frank Ford is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is unclear from the given information alone.
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D.
Ben Ford
Ben Ford is an American chef and restaurateur, known for his rustic, wood-fired cooking and as the son of actor Harrison Ford.
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E.
James Sawyer Ford
James "Sawyer" Ford is a central character on the television series "Lost," known as a complex, sharp-tongued con man with a troubled past and evolving moral compass.
- 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: Robert Newton Ford Target entity description: Robert Newton Ford was an American outlaw best known for killing Jesse James, an act that made him infamous in the history of the Old West.
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A.
Jack Ford
Jack Ford is the nickname of John Ford, the legendary American film director renowned for his influential Westerns and multiple Academy Awards.
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B.
John Gardner Ford
John Gardner Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford, known as a member of the Ford family.
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C.
Frank Ford
Frank Ford is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is unclear from the given information alone.
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D.
Ben Ford
Ben Ford is an American chef and restaurateur, known for his rustic, wood-fired cooking and as the son of actor Harrison Ford.
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E.
James Sawyer Ford
James "Sawyer" Ford is a central character on the television series "Lost," known as a complex, sharp-tongued con man with a troubled past and evolving moral compass.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Old West figure
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human ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Richmond Cemetery, Richmond, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1862-01-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1892-06-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeathOfVictim | 1882-04-03 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Bob Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
coward
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traitor to Jesse James ⓘ |
| killed | Jesse James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Edward O’Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatusAfterKilling |
convicted of murder
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pardoned ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| mannerOfKilling | shooting ⓘ |
| memberOf | James–Younger Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassination of Jesse James ⓘ |
| notableFor | killing Jesse James ⓘ |
| notableWork | killing of Jesse James ⓘ |
| occupation |
outlaw
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saloonkeeper ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ray County, Missouri
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Creede, Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfKilling | St. Joseph, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Casey Affleck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity (probable) ⓘ |
| residence |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shotInTheBackOfTheHead | Jesse James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Charles Wilson Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
ballads about the killing of Jesse James
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books about the James–Younger Gang ⓘ films about Jesse James ⓘ |
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: Robert Newton Ford Description of subject: Robert Newton Ford was an American outlaw best known for killing Jesse James, an act that made him infamous in the history of the Old West.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.