Roy Bean
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Roy Bean was a colorful 19th-century American saloonkeeper and self-styled frontier judge in Texas, famously known as the "Law West of the Pecos."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judge Roy Bean | 1 |
| Roy Bean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10844622 — 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: Roy Bean Context triple: [Bean, hasNotableBearer, Roy Bean]
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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.
Deaf Smith
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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C.
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.
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D.
Willie Applegarth
Willie Applegarth was a British sprinter who won gold and bronze medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and set multiple world records in short-distance track events.
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E.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
- 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: Roy Bean Target entity description: Roy Bean was a colorful 19th-century American saloonkeeper and self-styled frontier judge in Texas, famously known as the "Law West of the Pecos."
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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.
Deaf Smith
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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C.
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.
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D.
Willie Applegarth
Willie Applegarth was a British sprinter who won gold and bronze medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and set multiple world records in short-distance track events.
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E.
Delbert Grady
Delbert Grady is a ghostly former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known for having murdered his family and eerily influencing Jack Torrance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk hero
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frontier judge ⓘ human ⓘ saloonkeeper ⓘ |
| basedIn | Langtry, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Langtry, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | legendary figure of the American West ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1825-02-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1903-03-16 ⓘ |
| employer | Pecos County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Phantly Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | frontier justice ⓘ |
| givenName |
Phantly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Irish descent ⓘ |
| hasPart | courtroom in his saloon ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Lillie Langtry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Anna Gore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
Judge Roy Bean
NERFINISHED
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Law West of the Pecos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being called the Law West of the Pecos
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colorful and eccentric rulings ⓘ holding court in his saloon ⓘ serving as a self-styled judge in western Texas ⓘ |
| notableWork | colorful court decisions recorded in frontier lore ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
justice of the peace ⓘ saloonkeeper ⓘ |
| operated | Jersey Lilly saloon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Mason County, Kentucky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Langtry, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
justice of the peace for Pecos County, Texas
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justice of the peace for Val Verde County, Texas ⓘ |
| residence |
Langtry, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Joshua Bean
NERFINISHED
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Samuel Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Virginia Chavez 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: Roy Bean Description of subject: Roy Bean was a colorful 19th-century American saloonkeeper and self-styled frontier judge in Texas, famously known as the "Law West of the Pecos."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Judge Roy Bean