Charles Ford
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Charles Ford was an American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, best known as the brother and fellow gang member of Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Ford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9105858 — 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 Ford Context triple: [Bob Ford, sibling, Charles Ford]
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A.
Ernest Haycox
Ernest Haycox was an American author renowned for his prolific and influential Western fiction, several of whose stories were adapted into classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and journalist known for his politically charged fiction and work on film and television dramas.
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C.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
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D.
E. Phillips Fox
E. Phillips Fox was an influential Australian painter associated with the Impressionist movement, known for his luminous color, plein air technique, and depictions of domestic life and leisure.
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E.
Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson was a prominent 20th-century British novelist and short story writer known for his satirical and socially observant fiction.
- 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 Ford Target entity description: Charles Ford was an American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, best known as the brother and fellow gang member of Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James.
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A.
Ernest Haycox
Ernest Haycox was an American author renowned for his prolific and influential Western fiction, several of whose stories were adapted into classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and journalist known for his politically charged fiction and work on film and television dramas.
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C.
Raymond Greenwood
Raymond Greenwood is a central character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "White Nights," portrayed as a lonely, idealistic dreamer whose intense inner life contrasts with his isolation from society.
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D.
E. Phillips Fox
E. Phillips Fox was an influential Australian painter associated with the Impressionist movement, known for his luminous color, plein air technique, and depictions of domestic life and leisure.
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E.
Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson was a prominent 20th-century British novelist and short story writer known for his satirical and socially observant fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of criminal gang ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| activeIn | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bob Ford
NERFINISHED
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James–Younger Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| genre | Old West outlaw ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | James–Younger Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | criminal activities with the James–Younger Gang ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an American outlaw
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being the brother of Bob Ford ⓘ membership in the James–Younger Gang ⓘ participation in the James–Younger Gang with Bob Ford ⓘ |
| occupation | outlaw ⓘ |
| partOf | James–Younger Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
American Midwest
NERFINISHED
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Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Bob Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Bob Ford 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: Charles Ford Description of subject: Charles Ford was an American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, best known as the brother and fellow gang member of Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.