Virgil Earp
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Virgil Earp was an American Old West lawman best known as the older brother of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Virgil Earp canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4884781 — 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: Virgil Earp Context triple: [Wyatt Earp, hasCharacter, Virgil Earp]
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A.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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B.
Pat Garrett
Pat Garrett was an American Old West lawman and sheriff best known for killing the outlaw Billy the Kid.
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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.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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E.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West, famed for his role in the Lincoln County War and his legendary reputation as a young desperado.
- 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: Virgil Earp Target entity description: Virgil Earp was an American Old West lawman best known as the older brother of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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A.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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B.
Pat Garrett
Pat Garrett was an American Old West lawman and sheriff best known for killing the outlaw Billy the Kid.
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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.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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E.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West, famed for his role in the Lincoln County War and his legendary reputation as a young desperado.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Old West figure
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human ⓘ lawman ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Riverside, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1843-07-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1905-10-19 ⓘ |
| era | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | European American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Nicholas Porter Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Virgil Walter Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Virgil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
Deputy U.S. Marshal in Arizona Territory
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Tombstone city marshal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| injury |
maimed in an assassination attempt in Tombstone
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severely wounded in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ⓘ |
| militaryRank | private ⓘ |
| militaryService | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Virginia Ann Cooksey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
James Earp
NERFINISHED
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Morgan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyatt Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawman
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marshal ⓘ sheriff ⓘ |
| opponentInGunfight |
Billy Clanton
NERFINISHED
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Frank McLaury NERFINISHED ⓘ Ike Clanton NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom McLaury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participantIn | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hartford, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Goldfield, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Republican Party (historical alignment) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Colton, California
NERFINISHED
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Goldfield, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Prescott, Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Tombstone, Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leader of lawmen at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ⓘ |
| sibling |
James Earp
NERFINISHED
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Morgan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Newton Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyatt Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Allie Sullivan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Virgil Earp Description of subject: Virgil Earp was an American Old West lawman best known as the older brother of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral