William Kearney
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William Kearney is one of the three outlaw protagonists in the 1948 Western film "3 Godfathers," who become unlikely guardians to an orphaned baby in the desert.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Kearney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12289101 — 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: William Kearney Context triple: [3 Godfathers (1948 film), character, William Kearney]
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A.
Jesse Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm was a 19th-century trader, guide, and interpreter of Scottish-Cherokee descent best known for the cattle trail that later bore his name.
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B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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C.
Jesse L. Reno
Jesse L. Reno was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general after whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is named.
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D.
Laramie Seymour Sullivan
Laramie Seymour Sullivan is a central character in the neo-noir thriller film "Bad Times at the El Royale," portrayed as a mysterious vacuum cleaner salesman whose true identity and motives gradually unravel over the course of the story.
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E.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
- 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: William Kearney Target entity description: William Kearney is one of the three outlaw protagonists in the 1948 Western film "3 Godfathers," who become unlikely guardians to an orphaned baby in the desert.
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A.
Jesse Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm was a 19th-century trader, guide, and interpreter of Scottish-Cherokee descent best known for the cattle trail that later bore his name.
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B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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C.
Jesse L. Reno
Jesse L. Reno was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general after whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is named.
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D.
Laramie Seymour Sullivan
Laramie Seymour Sullivan is a central character in the neo-noir thriller film "Bad Times at the El Royale," portrayed as a mysterious vacuum cleaner salesman whose true identity and motives gradually unravel over the course of the story.
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E.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | 3 Godfathers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
bank robbery
ⓘ
redemption theme ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | story “The Three Godfathers” by Peter B. Kyne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThemeContext |
faith
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responsibility ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre | Western film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| guardianOf |
infant
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orphaned baby ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | 3 Godfathers (film universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | the baby’s deceased mother (indirectly, as protector of her child) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | cinema ⓘ |
| memberOf | group of three outlaws ⓘ |
| moralArc | outlaw to reluctant guardian ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | desert ⓘ |
| numberOfProtagonistGroup | three GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation | outlaw ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | live-action film ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
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: William Kearney Description of subject: William Kearney is one of the three outlaw protagonists in the 1948 Western film "3 Godfathers," who become unlikely guardians to an orphaned baby in the desert.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.