Deaf Smith
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Deaf Smith was a famed partially deaf scout and soldier who played a crucial role in the Texas Revolution, particularly at the Battle of San Jacinto.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deaf Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10761865 — 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: Deaf Smith Context triple: [Deaf Smith County, namedAfter, Deaf Smith]
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A.
Red Steagall
Red Steagall is an American cowboy poet, Western swing musician, and rancher known for his contributions to preserving and promoting Western heritage and cowboy culture.
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B.
Jethro Bodine
Jethro Bodine is a dim-witted yet lovable country boy character from the classic American TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," known for his naive confidence and comic misunderstandings.
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C.
Frank McLaury
Frank McLaury was an outlaw cowboy and member of the Cowboys gang in Tombstone, Arizona, who was famously killed during the legendary 1881 gunfight involving the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.
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D.
Jimmie Dodd
Jimmie Dodd was an American songwriter, actor, and television personality best known as the charismatic head Mouseketeer and musical host of the 1950s children's TV show "The Mickey Mouse Club."
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E.
Broncho Billy Anderson
Broncho Billy Anderson was a pioneering American actor, writer, director, and producer of the silent film era, best known as the first cowboy star of Western movies.
- 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: Deaf Smith Target entity description: Deaf Smith was a famed partially deaf scout and soldier who played a crucial role in the Texas Revolution, particularly at the Battle of San Jacinto.
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A.
Red Steagall
Red Steagall is an American cowboy poet, Western swing musician, and rancher known for his contributions to preserving and promoting Western heritage and cowboy culture.
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B.
Jethro Bodine
Jethro Bodine is a dim-witted yet lovable country boy character from the classic American TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," known for his naive confidence and comic misunderstandings.
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C.
Frank McLaury
Frank McLaury was an outlaw cowboy and member of the Cowboys gang in Tombstone, Arizona, who was famously killed during the legendary 1881 gunfight involving the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.
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D.
Jimmie Dodd
Jimmie Dodd was an American songwriter, actor, and television personality best known as the charismatic head Mouseketeer and musical host of the 1950s children's TV show "The Mickey Mouse Club."
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E.
Broncho Billy Anderson
Broncho Billy Anderson was a pioneering American actor, writer, director, and producer of the silent film era, best known as the first cowboy star of Western movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Texas Revolution figure
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person ⓘ scout ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| allegiance | Texian forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sam Houston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephen F. Austin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1787 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Dutchess County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Richmond, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Deaf Smith County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Texas Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Republic of Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1837 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Richmond, Republic of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fullName | Erastus Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Erastus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDisability | partial deafness ⓘ |
| honours | Texas county named Deaf Smith County ⓘ |
| knownFor | destroying Vince’s Bridge before the Battle of San Jacinto ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Texian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nickname | Deaf Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
actions at the Battle of San Jacinto
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role in the Texas Revolution ⓘ scouting for the Texian Army ⓘ |
| occupation |
frontiersman
ⓘ
rancher ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Concepción
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of San Jacinto NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Bexar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | scout for the Texian Army ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
San Antonio, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| role | chief scout for Sam Houston at San Jacinto ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Guadalupe Ruiz Durán 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: Deaf Smith Description of subject: Deaf Smith was a famed partially deaf scout and soldier who played a crucial role in the Texas Revolution, particularly at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.