Doc Scurlock
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Doc Scurlock was an American Old West gunfighter and rancher best known for his close association with Billy the Kid and his prominent role in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doc Scurlock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9323749 — 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: Doc Scurlock Context triple: [Lincoln County War, notableParticipant, Doc Scurlock]
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A.
Dr. Woodward
Dr. Woodward is a mysterious biology teacher whose secretive actions and knowledge about a catastrophic train crash drive much of the suspense in the science-fiction film "Super 8."
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B.
Dr. Maxwell Stanton
Dr. Maxwell Stanton is a fictional character appearing in the television drama series "In the House."
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C.
Dr. Godwin Baxter
Dr. Godwin Baxter is a brilliant but grotesquely eccentric Victorian scientist who resurrects and raises the reanimated woman Bella Baxter in Alasdair Gray’s novel and its film adaptation "Poor Things."
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D.
Dr. Fagan
Dr. Fagan is a comically unscrupulous and financially desperate headmaster of a disreputable Welsh boarding school in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Decline and Fall."
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E.
Dr. Sam Bennett
Dr. Sam Bennett is a fictional pediatrician and holistic medicine specialist on the television series "Private Practice," known for his compassionate care and complex personal relationships.
- 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: Doc Scurlock Target entity description: Doc Scurlock was an American Old West gunfighter and rancher best known for his close association with Billy the Kid and his prominent role in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
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A.
Dr. Woodward
Dr. Woodward is a mysterious biology teacher whose secretive actions and knowledge about a catastrophic train crash drive much of the suspense in the science-fiction film "Super 8."
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B.
Dr. Maxwell Stanton
Dr. Maxwell Stanton is a fictional character appearing in the television drama series "In the House."
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C.
Dr. Godwin Baxter
Dr. Godwin Baxter is a brilliant but grotesquely eccentric Victorian scientist who resurrects and raises the reanimated woman Bella Baxter in Alasdair Gray’s novel and its film adaptation "Poor Things."
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D.
Dr. Fagan
Dr. Fagan is a comically unscrupulous and financially desperate headmaster of a disreputable Welsh boarding school in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Decline and Fall."
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E.
Dr. Sam Bennett
Dr. Sam Bennett is a fictional pediatrician and holistic medicine specialist on the television series "Private Practice," known for his compassionate care and complex personal relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Old West gunfighter
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participant in the Lincoln County War ⓘ person ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alexander McSween
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Tunstall NERFINISHED ⓘ Regulators (Lincoln County War) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1849-01-11 ⓘ |
| birthName | Josiah Gordon Scurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Eastland City Cemetery, Eastland, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| closeAssociateOf | Billy the Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1929-07-25 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Eastland, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Murphy-Dolan faction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Scurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Josiah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | killing of Sheriff William Brady ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterLivedIn | Eastland County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Regulators (Lincoln County War) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Doc Scurlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Doc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Billy the Kid
ⓘ
role in the Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 10 ⓘ |
| occupation |
cowboy
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gunfighter ⓘ lawman ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| operated | ranch in New Mexico Territory ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Old West conflicts
NERFINISHED
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Lincoln County War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Alabama
NERFINISHED
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New Mexico Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas ⓘ |
| servedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Antonia Miguela Herrera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs |
storekeeper
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teacher ⓘ |
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: Doc Scurlock Description of subject: Doc Scurlock was an American Old West gunfighter and rancher best known for his close association with Billy the Kid and his prominent role in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.