Davy Crockett
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Davy Crockett was a 19th-century American frontiersman, soldier, and politician from Tennessee who became a folk hero for his exploits on the frontier and his death at the Battle of the Alamo.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Davy Crockett canonical | 26 |
| David Crockett | 8 |
| David Crockett: The Lion of the West | 1 |
| Davy Crockett (legendary figure) | 1 |
| Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3941173 — 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: Davy Crockett Context triple: [The Alamo, commandedByDefenders, Davy Crockett]
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James Bowie
James Bowie was a 19th-century American frontiersman and folk hero, famed for his role at the Battle of the Alamo and for the large hunting knife that bears his name.
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American frontiersman and explorer famed for blazing the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap, opening the way for westward expansion into Kentucky.
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C.
Christopher Carson
Christopher Carson is one of the sons of legendary American television host and comedian Johnny Carson.
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D.
Mad Anthony
Mad Anthony was the fiery and daring nickname of Anthony Wayne, a bold American Revolutionary War general known for his aggressive battlefield tactics.
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E.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
- 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: Davy Crockett Target entity description: Davy Crockett was a 19th-century American frontiersman, soldier, and politician from Tennessee who became a folk hero for his exploits on the frontier and his death at the Battle of the Alamo.
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A.
James Bowie
James Bowie was a 19th-century American frontiersman and folk hero, famed for his role at the Battle of the Alamo and for the large hunting knife that bears his name.
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B.
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American frontiersman and explorer famed for blazing the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap, opening the way for westward expansion into Kentucky.
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C.
Christopher Carson
Christopher Carson is one of the sons of legendary American television host and comedian Johnny Carson.
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D.
Mad Anthony
Mad Anthony was the fiery and daring nickname of Anthony Wayne, a bold American Revolutionary War general known for his aggressive battlefield tactics.
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E.
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill is the fictional serial killer antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for murdering women and skinning them to create a "woman suit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Davy Crockett Description of subject: Davy Crockett was a 19th-century American frontiersman, soldier, and politician from Tennessee who became a folk hero for his exploits on the frontier and his death at the Battle of the Alamo.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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