Ringo Kid
E431261
Ringo Kid is the iconic outlaw-hero portrayed by John Wayne in the classic 1939 Western film "Stagecoach."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ringo Kid canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4337354 — 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: Ringo Kid Context triple: [Stagecoach, featuresCharacter, Ringo Kid]
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A.
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr is an English musician and actor best known as the drummer of the Beatles and for his subsequent solo career.
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B.
Ronnie
Ronnie is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Ronald or Veronica.
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C.
Lenny
Lenny is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring one of his early robot characters and exploring themes of robotics and human-robot interaction.
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D.
Lenny
"Lenny" is a 2001 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz, showcasing his blend of classic rock, funk, and soul influences.
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E.
Lenny
Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman.
- 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: Ringo Kid Target entity description: Ringo Kid is the iconic outlaw-hero portrayed by John Wayne in the classic 1939 Western film "Stagecoach."
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A.
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr is an English musician and actor best known as the drummer of the Beatles and for his subsequent solo career.
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B.
Ronnie
Ronnie is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a diminutive of Ronald or Veronica.
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C.
Lenny
"Lenny" is a 2001 rock album by American musician Lenny Kravitz, showcasing his blend of classic rock, funk, and soul influences.
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D.
Lenny
Lenny is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring one of his early robot characters and exploring themes of robotics and human-robot interaction.
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E.
Lenny
Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ hero ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| alignment | outlaw-hero ⓘ |
| appearsAlongsideCharacter |
Buck
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Curley ⓘ Dallas ⓘ Doc Boone ⓘ Hatfield ⓘ Lucy Mallory ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stagecoach ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | classic Hollywood Western ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from Ernest Haycox’s short story “Stage to Lordsburg” ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy |
Dudley Nichols
ⓘ
John Ford ⓘ |
| createdFor | Stagecoach ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | iconic Western hero ⓘ |
| distributorOfWork | United Artists ⓘ |
| featuredIn | American Film Institute discussions of classic Western characters ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | John Ford ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Dallas ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | redeemed outlaw ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping defend the stagecoach from Apache attack
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iconic entrance scene stopping the stagecoach ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
courageous
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honorable ⓘ skilled with firearms ⓘ |
| occupation |
gunfighter
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outlaw ⓘ |
| partOf | Stagecoach (1939 film) ⓘ |
| portrayalHelpedEstablish | John Wayne as a major star ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Wayne ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Walter Wanger Productions ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting |
American Old West
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linked to:
Old West
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| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1939 ⓘ |
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: Ringo Kid Description of subject: Ringo Kid is the iconic outlaw-hero portrayed by John Wayne in the classic 1939 Western film "Stagecoach."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.