Wild Bill
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Wild Bill was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter famed for his marksmanship and colorful life in the Old West.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wild Bill canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286238 — 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: Wild Bill Context triple: [Wild Bill Hickok, nickname, Wild Bill]
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A.
Wild Billy
Wild Billy is a free-spirited, hard-partying character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” embodying youthful rebellion and nocturnal adventure.
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B.
Nat Love
Nat Love was a famed African American cowboy and former slave who became one of the most legendary figures of the post–Civil War American West.
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C.
Bob Shane
Bob Shane was an American folk singer best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the influential folk group The Kingston Trio.
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D.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
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E.
Bob Montana
Bob Montana was an American comic book artist best known as the original creator and illustrator of the Archie comic strip.
- 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: Wild Bill Target entity description: Wild Bill was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter famed for his marksmanship and colorful life in the Old West.
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A.
Wild Billy
Wild Billy is a free-spirited, hard-partying character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” embodying youthful rebellion and nocturnal adventure.
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B.
Nat Love
Nat Love was a famed African American cowboy and former slave who became one of the most legendary figures of the post–Civil War American West.
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C.
Bob Shane
Bob Shane was an American folk singer best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the influential folk group The Kingston Trio.
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D.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
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E.
Bob Montana
Bob Montana was an American comic book artist best known as the original creator and illustrator of the Archie comic strip.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1837-05-27 ⓘ |
| birthName | James Butler Hickok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy Grove, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1876-03-05 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1876-08-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Dakota Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deadwood, Dakota Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Deadwood, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hickok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| killedBy | Jack McCall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementRole |
marshal of Abilene, Kansas
ⓘ
sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| middleName | Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American frontier ⓘ |
| name | Wild Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
gunfight with Phil Coe in Abilene, Kansas
ⓘ
shootout with Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri ⓘ |
| notableFor |
gunfights
ⓘ
legendary status as a 19th-century American frontiersman ⓘ marksmanship ⓘ role in the American Old West ⓘ |
| occupation |
gambler
ⓘ
gunfighter ⓘ lawman ⓘ marshal ⓘ scout ⓘ sheriff ⓘ soldier ⓘ spy ⓘ stagecoach driver ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
dime novels about the American West
ⓘ
television series "Deadwood" NERFINISHED ⓘ television series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" (as a character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
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| residence |
Abilene, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deadwood, Dakota Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Hays, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Springfield, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnes Thatcher Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | scout for the Union Army ⓘ |
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: Wild Bill Description of subject: Wild Bill was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter famed for his marksmanship and colorful life in the Old West.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.