Free State of Jones
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Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war drama film starring Matthew McConaughey that depicts a Confederate deserter leading a rebellion against the Confederacy in Mississippi during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Free State of Jones canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12893187 — 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: Free State of Jones Context triple: [Gary Ross, notableWork, Free State of Jones]
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A.
Quitman
Quitman is a surname most notably associated with John A. Quitman, a 19th-century American politician and military figure.
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B.
Light of the South
Light of the South is the English rendering of the Japanese name given to Singapore during its World War II occupation.
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C.
Verdão
Verdão is the popular nickname of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, one of Brazil’s most successful and traditional football clubs.
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D.
Defeat of Jesse James Days
Defeat of Jesse James Days is an annual festival in Northfield, Minnesota, commemorating the town’s 1876 armed resistance to an attempted bank robbery by the James-Younger Gang.
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E.
Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American Civil War drama film directed by Ang Lee that follows a group of Missouri bushwhackers navigating loyalty, identity, and survival amid guerrilla warfare.
- 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: Free State of Jones Target entity description: Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war drama film starring Matthew McConaughey that depicts a Confederate deserter leading a rebellion against the Confederacy in Mississippi during the Civil War.
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A.
Quitman
Quitman is a surname most notably associated with John A. Quitman, a 19th-century American politician and military figure.
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B.
Light of the South
Light of the South is the English rendering of the Japanese name given to Singapore during its World War II occupation.
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C.
Verdão
Verdão is the popular nickname of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, one of Brazil’s most successful and traditional football clubs.
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D.
Defeat of Jesse James Days
Defeat of Jesse James Days is an annual festival in Northfield, Minnesota, commemorating the town’s 1876 armed resistance to an attempted bank robbery by the James-Younger Gang.
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E.
Ride with the Devil
Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American Civil War drama film directed by Ang Lee that follows a group of Missouri bushwhackers navigating loyalty, identity, and survival amid guerrilla warfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
film ⓘ historical film ⓘ war drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical events in Jones County, Mississippi ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Benoît Delhomme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| depictsEvent | Battle of Corinth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsOrganization | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsTheme |
class conflict in wartime South
ⓘ
racial inequality in the American South ⓘ |
| director | Gary Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | STX Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Pamela Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | “Based on the incredible true story” ⓘ |
| leadActor | Matthew McConaughey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Newton Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nicholas Britell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | uprising of poor farmers and deserters in Jones County ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Newton Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Gary Ross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jon Kilik NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Stuber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Route One Entertainment
NERFINISHED
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STX Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Vendian Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2016-06-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 139 ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keri Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahershala Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew McConaughey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Confederate desertion
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Reconstruction era ⓘ rebellion against the Confederacy ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| writer |
Gary Ross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leonard Hartman 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: Free State of Jones Description of subject: Free State of Jones is a 2016 American historical war drama film starring Matthew McConaughey that depicts a Confederate deserter leading a rebellion against the Confederacy in Mississippi during the Civil War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.