Ned Kelly
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Ned Kelly was a notorious 19th-century Australian bushranger and folk hero, famed for his outlaw exploits, distinctive homemade armor, and dramatic final stand against colonial authorities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ned Kelly canonical | 15 |
| Ned Kelly gang | 1 |
| Ned Kelly series | 1 |
| Ned Kelly’s gang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3348250 — 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: Ned Kelly Context triple: [Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly series works, mainSubject, Ned Kelly]
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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B.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
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C.
Black Larsen
Black Larsen is a villainous outlaw character in Charlie Chaplin’s silent film "The Gold Rush."
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- 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: Ned Kelly Target entity description: Ned Kelly was a notorious 19th-century Australian bushranger and folk hero, famed for his outlaw exploits, distinctive homemade armor, and dramatic final stand against colonial authorities.
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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B.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
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C.
Black Larsen
Black Larsen is a villainous outlaw character in Charlie Chaplin’s silent film "The Gold Rush."
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bushranger
ⓘ
folk hero ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
New South Wales
ⓘ
Victoria ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder of Constable Thomas Lonigan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colony of Victoria ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction | iconic image in Australian art ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1854-12-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1880-11-11 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| father | John "Red" Kelly ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Kelly ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | symbol of Irish-Australian resistance ⓘ |
| influenced |
Australian film
ⓘ
Australian literature ⓘ Australian national identity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
resistance to colonial authorities
ⓘ
status as Australian folk hero ⓘ wearing bullet-resistant armour ⓘ |
| lastWords | Such is life ⓘ |
| legalStatus | outlaw ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kelly Gang ⓘ |
| mother | Ellen Kelly ⓘ |
| movement | Australian bushranging tradition ⓘ |
| nickname | Ned ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Euroa bank robbery
ⓘ
Jerilderie bank robbery ⓘ Glenrowan siege ⓘ
surface form:
Siege of Glenrowan
Stringybark Creek police killings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kelly Gang
ⓘ
surface form:
Kelly Gang robberies
|
| occupation |
bushranger
ⓘ
outlaw ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Beveridge, Colony of Victoria ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Melbourne Gaol, Colony of Victoria ⓘ |
| sibling | Dan Kelly ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Jerilderie Letter
ⓘ
surface form:
The Jerilderie Letter
film "Ned Kelly" (1970) ⓘ film "Ned Kelly" (2003) ⓘ novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" ⓘ numerous paintings and artworks ⓘ |
| used |
homemade metal armour
ⓘ
steel helmet ⓘ |
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: Ned Kelly Description of subject: Ned Kelly was a notorious 19th-century Australian bushranger and folk hero, famed for his outlaw exploits, distinctive homemade armor, and dramatic final stand against colonial authorities.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ned Kelly’s gang
this entity surface form:
Ned Kelly series
this entity surface form:
Ned Kelly gang