John McCabe
E539808
John McCabe is the enigmatic, self-styled gambler and entrepreneur at the center of Robert Altman’s revisionist Western film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McCabe canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5714136 — 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: John McCabe Context triple: [McCabe & Mrs. Miller, mainCharacter, John McCabe]
-
A.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
-
B.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
-
C.
John Brennan
John Brennan is an American intelligence official who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama.
-
D.
Vernon A. Walters
Vernon A. Walters was an American Army lieutenant general, diplomat, and intelligence officer who served in key Cold War roles, including Deputy Director of the CIA and later U.S. ambassador to several countries.
-
E.
Richard Mueller
Richard Mueller is a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work in astrophysics, geophysics, and climate science communication.
- 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: John McCabe Target entity description: John McCabe is the enigmatic, self-styled gambler and entrepreneur at the center of Robert Altman’s revisionist Western film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
-
A.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
-
B.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
-
C.
John Brennan
John Brennan is an American intelligence official who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama.
-
D.
Vernon A. Walters
Vernon A. Walters was an American Army lieutenant general, diplomat, and intelligence officer who served in key Cold War roles, including Deputy Director of the CIA and later U.S. ambassador to several countries.
-
E.
Richard Mueller
Richard Mueller is a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work in astrophysics, geophysics, and climate science communication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McCabe & Mrs. Miller ⓘ |
| associatedWorkType | revisionist Western film ⓘ |
| characterType | enigmatic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Robert Altman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
gambler ⓘ |
| setting | frontier town of Presbyterian Church ⓘ |
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: John McCabe Description of subject: John McCabe is the enigmatic, self-styled gambler and entrepreneur at the center of Robert Altman’s revisionist Western film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.