Cullen Bohannon
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Cullen Bohannon is a former Confederate soldier turned railroad foreman and antihero protagonist of the Western television series "Hell on Wheels."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cullen Bohannon canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661082 — 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: Cullen Bohannon Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, hasMainCharacter, Cullen Bohannon]
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A.
Markelle Fultz
Markelle Fultz is an American professional basketball guard known for being a highly touted prospect whose early NBA career was disrupted by shoulder issues that affected his shooting.
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B.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
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C.
Chris Tierney
Chris Tierney is an American former professional soccer player best known as a long-serving left back and set-piece specialist for the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.
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D.
Kendrick Frazier
Kendrick Frazier was an American science writer and longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, known for his prominent role in the modern scientific skepticism movement.
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E.
Quincy Douby
Quincy Douby is an American former professional basketball player best known as a high-scoring guard at Rutgers University who went on to play in the NBA and overseas.
- 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: Cullen Bohannon Target entity description: Cullen Bohannon is a former Confederate soldier turned railroad foreman and antihero protagonist of the Western television series "Hell on Wheels."
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A.
Markelle Fultz
Markelle Fultz is an American professional basketball guard known for being a highly touted prospect whose early NBA career was disrupted by shoulder issues that affected his shooting.
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B.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
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C.
Chris Tierney
Chris Tierney is an American former professional soccer player best known as a long-serving left back and set-piece specialist for the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.
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D.
Kendrick Frazier
Kendrick Frazier was an American science writer and longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, known for his prominent role in the modern scientific skepticism movement.
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E.
Quincy Douby
Quincy Douby is an American former professional basketball player best known as a high-scoring guard at Rutgers University who went on to play in the NBA and overseas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hell on Wheels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hell on Wheels
ⓘ
surface form:
Hell on Wheels mobile encampment
First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ
surface form:
Transcontinental Railroad
|
| characterArc | from vengeful ex-soldier to railroad leader ⓘ |
| characterType | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| child | William Bohannon ⓘ |
| coCreatedBy |
Joe Gayton
ⓘ
Tony Gayton ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| createdFor | AMC ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Union soldiers who killed his family ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Hell on Wheels Season 1 Episode 1 ⓘ |
| formerAllegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
leadership
ⓘ
marksmanship ⓘ railroad engineering oversight ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist of Hell on Wheels ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | AMC ⓘ |
| occupation |
gunslinger
ⓘ
railroad foreman ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Anson Mount ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | revenge for his murdered family ⓘ |
| rank | Confederate soldier ⓘ |
| roleInWork | railroad construction ⓘ |
| setting | post–Civil War United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Bohannon
ⓘ
Naomi Hatch Bohannon ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
reconstruction era
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1860s ⓘ |
| worksFor | Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Cullen Bohannon Description of subject: Cullen Bohannon is a former Confederate soldier turned railroad foreman and antihero protagonist of the Western television series "Hell on Wheels."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Durant (Hell on Wheels)
subject surface form:
Thomas Durant (Hell on Wheels)
subject surface form:
Cullen Bohannon