Major Amos Charles Dundee
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Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Amos Charles Dundee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6292514 — 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: Major Amos Charles Dundee Context triple: [Major Dundee, character, Major Amos Charles Dundee]
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A.
Major Thomas Jones
Major Thomas Jones was an early 18th-century Welsh privateer-turned-settler on Long Island whose landholdings and local prominence led to the famous Jones Beach area bearing his name.
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B.
Major William Mounsey
Major William Mounsey was a 19th-century British army officer and antiquarian known for his interest in ancient monuments and inscriptions.
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C.
Major William Radcliff
Major William Radcliff was a U.S. Army officer after whom the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, was named in recognition of his service.
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D.
Sergeant Archibald Ballantine
Sergeant Archibald Ballantine is a fictional British Army non-commissioned officer, often depicted as a close comrade-in-arms to Sergeant Archibald Cutter in adventure or war narratives.
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E.
Major William Ormsby
Major William Ormsby was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in what is now Nevada, remembered for his role in regional development and for having Ormsby County named in his honor.
- 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: Major Amos Charles Dundee Target entity description: Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
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A.
Major Thomas Jones
Major Thomas Jones was an early 18th-century Welsh privateer-turned-settler on Long Island whose landholdings and local prominence led to the famous Jones Beach area bearing his name.
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B.
Major William Mounsey
Major William Mounsey was a 19th-century British army officer and antiquarian known for his interest in ancient monuments and inscriptions.
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C.
Major William Radcliff
Major William Radcliff was a U.S. Army officer after whom the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, was named in recognition of his service.
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D.
Sergeant Archibald Ballantine
Sergeant Archibald Ballantine is a fictional British Army non-commissioned officer, often depicted as a close comrade-in-arms to Sergeant Archibald Cutter in adventure or war narratives.
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E.
Major William Ormsby
Major William Ormsby was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler in what is now Nevada, remembered for his role in regional development and for having Ormsby County named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| appearsIn | Major Dundee ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
controversial
ⓘ
hard-driven ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Sam Peckinpah ⓘ |
| familyName | Dundee ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Major Dundee (film universe)
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linked to:
Major Dundee
|
| filmDirectorOfWork | Sam Peckinpah ⓘ |
| fullName | Amos Charles Dundee ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Amos ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| notableWork | Major Dundee ⓘ |
| occupation | cavalry officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Charlton Heston ⓘ |
| rank | Major ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1965 ⓘ |
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: Major Amos Charles Dundee Description of subject: Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.