Robert Ford
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Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Ford canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2198487 — 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: Robert Ford Context triple: [The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, mainCharacter, Robert Ford]
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A.
Gary Zimmerman
Gary Zimmerman is a Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle renowned for his dominant play with the Minnesota Vikings and Denver Broncos in the NFL.
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B.
John Bullough
John Bullough was a British industrialist from a prominent Lancashire textile family, known for his involvement in the cotton machinery industry and substantial wealth in the 19th century.
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C.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
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D.
James Spies
James Spies is a voice actor known for his role in the animated Easter special "The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town."
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E.
John David Crow
John David Crow was an American football halfback and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Texas A&M and subsequent success in the NFL.
- 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: Robert Ford Target entity description: Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
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A.
Gary Zimmerman
Gary Zimmerman is a Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle renowned for his dominant play with the Minnesota Vikings and Denver Broncos in the NFL.
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B.
John Bullough
John Bullough was a British industrialist from a prominent Lancashire textile family, known for his involvement in the cotton machinery industry and substantial wealth in the 19th century.
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C.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
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D.
James Spies
James Spies is a voice actor known for his role in the animated Easter special "The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town."
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E.
John David Crow
John David Crow was an American football halfback and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Texas A&M and subsequent success in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Robert Ford Description of subject: Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jesse James
subject linked to:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (novel)
subject linked to:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (novel)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Robert Ford
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subject linked to:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (novel)