The Newton Boys
E121638
The Newton Boys is a 1998 crime drama film based on the true story of a gang of Texas brothers who became some of the most successful bank robbers in American history.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Newton Boys canonical | 19 |
| "The Newton Boys" | 1 |
| The Newton Boys (1998 film) | 1 |
| The Newton Boys (film universe) | 1 |
| The Newton Boys gang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017104 — 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 Newton Boys Context triple: [Dwight Yoakam, filmAppearance, The Newton Boys]
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A.
The Seven-Ups
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American crime thriller film following an elite NYPD unit that uses unorthodox tactics to take down organized crime, starring Roy Scheider.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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D.
Adam in Ballingschap
"Adam in Ballingschap" is a 17th-century Dutch poetic drama by Joost van den Vondel that retells the biblical story of Adam’s fall and exile from Paradise.
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E.
The Three Apples
The Three Apples is a murder-mystery tale from the medieval Arabic collection One Thousand and One Nights, notable for its early use of detective-story elements and intricate storytelling.
- 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 Newton Boys Target entity description: The Newton Boys is a 1998 crime drama film based on the true story of a gang of Texas brothers who became some of the most successful bank robbers in American history.
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A.
The Seven-Ups
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American crime thriller film following an elite NYPD unit that uses unorthodox tactics to take down organized crime, starring Roy Scheider.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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D.
Adam in Ballingschap
"Adam in Ballingschap" is a 17th-century Dutch poetic drama by Joost van den Vondel that retells the biblical story of Adam’s fall and exile from Paradise.
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E.
The Three Apples
The Three Apples is a murder-mystery tale from the medieval Arabic collection One Thousand and One Nights, notable for its early use of detective-story elements and intricate storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Newton Boys Description of subject: The Newton Boys is a 1998 crime drama film based on the true story of a gang of Texas brothers who became some of the most successful bank robbers in American history.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Skeet Ulrich (born Bryan Ray Trout, later Bryan Ray Thompson)
linked to: The Newton Boys
linked to: The Newton Boys
linked to: The Newton Boys
linked to: The Newton Boys