Tom McLaury
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Tom McLaury was an outlaw cowboy of the Old West and a member of the loosely organized Cochise County Cowboys, best known for being killed in the infamous 1881 gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
All labels observed (1)
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| Tom McLaury canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9285998 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom McLaury Context triple: [Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, hasParticipant, Tom McLaury]
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A.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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B.
Brian Masterson
Brian Masterson is an Irish recording engineer and producer best known for his influential work in the music industry and for co-founding Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios.
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C.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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D.
Tom McGuire
Tom McGuire was an early 20th-century film actor known for his roles in silent and early sound comedies, including ensemble appearances in major studio productions.
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E.
Butch Coolidge
Butch Coolidge is a tough, aging boxer in the film "Pulp Fiction" who becomes entangled in a violent series of events after double-crossing a crime boss.
- 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: Tom McLaury Target entity description: Tom McLaury was an outlaw cowboy of the Old West and a member of the loosely organized Cochise County Cowboys, best known for being killed in the infamous 1881 gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
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A.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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B.
Brian Masterson
Brian Masterson is an Irish recording engineer and producer best known for his influential work in the music industry and for co-founding Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios.
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C.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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D.
Tom McGuire
Tom McGuire was an early 20th-century film actor known for his roles in silent and early sound comedies, including ensemble appearances in major studio productions.
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E.
Butch Coolidge
Butch Coolidge is a tough, aging boxer in the film "Pulp Fiction" who becomes entangled in a violent series of events after double-crossing a crime boss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cochise County Cowboy
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cowboy ⓘ historical figure ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| activity |
cattle rustling
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outlawry ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Billy Clanton
NERFINISHED
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Frank McLaury NERFINISHED ⓘ Ike Clanton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfDeath | 1881-10-26 ⓘ |
| era | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| facedOpponent |
Doc Holliday
NERFINISHED
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Morgan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgil Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyatt Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McLaury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western history subject ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfDeath | gunshot ⓘ |
| killedIn | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Cochise County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cochise County Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death in Tombstone gunfight ⓘ |
| notableFor | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cowboy
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rancher ⓘ |
| partOf | Cochise County Cowboys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tombstone, Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Frank McLaury 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: Tom McLaury Description of subject: Tom McLaury was an outlaw cowboy of the Old West and a member of the loosely organized Cochise County Cowboys, best known for being killed in the infamous 1881 gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.