The Trail Blazer
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The Trail Blazer is a 1926 silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard, known for its action-packed frontier adventure and horsemanship sequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Trail Blazer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11221573 — 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: The Trail Blazer Context triple: [Ken Maynard, notableWork, The Trail Blazer]
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A.
Blazer Victory
"Blazer Victory" is the official fight song of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers athletic teams, prominently used to rally fans and players at sporting events.
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B.
The Playmaker
The Playmaker is the nickname of Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who starred for the Dallas Cowboys during their 1990s Super Bowl dynasty.
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C.
Above the Rim
Above the Rim is a 1994 urban sports drama film centered on street basketball and inner-city life, notable for featuring Tupac Shakur in a prominent acting role.
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D.
Raider
Raider is the athletic mascot and team identity representing Colgate University’s sports programs.
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E.
Raider
Raider is the mascot representing Wellesley High School’s athletic teams and school spirit.
- 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: The Trail Blazer Target entity description: The Trail Blazer is a 1926 silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard, known for its action-packed frontier adventure and horsemanship sequences.
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A.
Blazer Victory
"Blazer Victory" is the official fight song of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers athletic teams, prominently used to rally fans and players at sporting events.
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B.
The Playmaker
The Playmaker is the nickname of Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who starred for the Dallas Cowboys during their 1990s Super Bowl dynasty.
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C.
Above the Rim
Above the Rim is a 1994 urban sports drama film centered on street basketball and inner-city life, notable for featuring Tupac Shakur in a prominent acting role.
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D.
Raider
Raider is the athletic mascot representing Gulliver Preparatory School’s sports teams and school spirit.
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E.
Raider
Raider is the nickname of the B-21 Raider, a next-generation U.S. stealth bomber designed for long-range, highly survivable strike missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| castMember | Ken Maynard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresCharacterType | cowboy ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
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action ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
action-packed scenes
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horsemanship sequences ⓘ intertitles in English ⓘ |
| hasSetting | American frontier ⓘ |
| hasStarHorseman | Ken Maynard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| mainSubject | frontier adventure ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| notableFor | Ken Maynard’s horsemanship ⓘ |
| productionEra | silent era ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| starOccupation | cowboy actor ⓘ |
| starring | Ken Maynard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1920s American cinema ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1926 ⓘ |
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: The Trail Blazer Description of subject: The Trail Blazer is a 1926 silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard, known for its action-packed frontier adventure and horsemanship sequences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.