Major Henry Terrill
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Major Henry Terrill is a central character in the 1958 Western film "The Big Country," portrayed as a powerful and proud rancher embroiled in a bitter land feud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Henry Terrill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11082090 — 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: Major Henry Terrill Context triple: [James McKay, futureFatherInLaw, Major Henry Terrill]
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A.
Major John Buttrick
Major John Buttrick was a colonial militia officer best known for leading the American forces that fired the first organized volley against British troops at the North Bridge during the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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B.
Major Henry West
Major Henry West is a British Army officer and the primary human antagonist in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later," known for his ruthless and morally corrupt survival tactics.
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C.
Major William Lauderdale
Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
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D.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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E.
Samuel P. Heintzelman
Samuel P. Heintzelman was a United States Army officer and Union major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and other early-war operations.
- 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: Major Henry Terrill Target entity description: Major Henry Terrill is a central character in the 1958 Western film "The Big Country," portrayed as a powerful and proud rancher embroiled in a bitter land feud.
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A.
Major John Buttrick
Major John Buttrick was a colonial militia officer best known for leading the American forces that fired the first organized volley against British troops at the North Bridge during the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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B.
Major Henry West
Major Henry West is a British Army officer and the primary human antagonist in the post-apocalyptic horror film "28 Days Later," known for his ruthless and morally corrupt survival tactics.
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C.
Major William Lauderdale
Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
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D.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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E.
Samuel P. Heintzelman
Samuel P. Heintzelman was a United States Army officer and Union major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and other early-war operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Big Country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | Terrill ranch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | The Big Country (1958 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | land feud ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
James R. Webb
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jessamyn West NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedBy | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Terrill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Big Country universe ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Western film ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Patricia Terrill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRival | Rufus Hannassey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | rancher ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
powerful
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proud ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Charles Bickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | major ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1958 ⓘ |
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: Major Henry Terrill Description of subject: Major Henry Terrill is a central character in the 1958 Western film "The Big Country," portrayed as a powerful and proud rancher embroiled in a bitter land feud.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.