Rooster Cogburn
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Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and following the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn on a new adventure.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rooster Cogburn canonical | 20 |
| Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn | 1 |
| Rooster Cogburn (fictional character) | 1 |
| Rooster Cogburn is a tough U.S. Marshal | 1 |
| U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2178833 — 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: Rooster Cogburn Context triple: [Hal B. Wallis, notableWork, Rooster Cogburn]
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A.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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B.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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C.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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D.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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E.
Denny Colt
Denny Colt is the masked vigilante alter ego known as The Spirit, a crime-fighting hero created by cartoonist Will Eisner.
- 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: Rooster Cogburn Target entity description: Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and following the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn on a new adventure.
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A.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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B.
Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson was a famed Old West lawman, gambler, and later New York City sportswriter known for his colorful life on the American frontier.
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C.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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D.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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E.
Denny Colt
Denny Colt is the masked vigilante alter ego known as The Spirit, a crime-fighting hero created by cartoonist Will Eisner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Rooster Cogburn Description of subject: Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and following the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn on a new adventure.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rooster Cogburn (fictional character)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn
subject surface form:
Rooster Cogburn (film)
subject surface form:
Rooster Cogburn (film)
subject surface form:
True Grit
subject surface form:
True Grit
this entity surface form:
Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
subject surface form:
True Grit
this entity surface form:
Rooster Cogburn is a tough U.S. Marshal