Cheyenne (character)
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Cheyenne is a charismatic outlaw and key supporting character in Sergio Leone’s Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," known for his rough charm, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s unfolding.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cheyenne (character) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7726472 — 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: Cheyenne (character) Context triple: [Once Upon a Time in the West (score), usesLeitmotifsFor, Cheyenne (character)]
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A.
Cheyenne (TV series)
Cheyenne is a pioneering American Western television series that aired in the 1950s and 1960s, known for being one of the first hour-long dramatic TV Westerns and for starring Clint Walker as the titular cowboy hero.
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B.
Making-Out-Road (Cheyenne wife)
Making-Out-Road was a Cheyenne woman known primarily as one of the Native American wives of frontiersman and scout Kit Carson.
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C.
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
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D.
Kit Carruthers in Badlands
Kit Carruthers in *Badlands* is the charismatic yet disturbingly detached young drifter and spree killer portrayed by Martin Sheen in Terrence Malick’s 1973 crime drama.
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Mattie
Mattie is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate form of names like Martha.
- 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: Cheyenne (character) Target entity description: Cheyenne is a charismatic outlaw and key supporting character in Sergio Leone’s Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," known for his rough charm, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s unfolding.
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A.
Cheyenne (TV series)
Cheyenne is a pioneering American Western television series that aired in the 1950s and 1960s, known for being one of the first hour-long dramatic TV Westerns and for starring Clint Walker as the titular cowboy hero.
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B.
Making-Out-Road (Cheyenne wife)
Making-Out-Road was a Cheyenne woman known primarily as one of the Native American wives of frontiersman and scout Kit Carson.
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C.
Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
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D.
Kit Carruthers in Badlands
Kit Carruthers in *Badlands* is the charismatic yet disturbingly detached young drifter and spree killer portrayed by Martin Sheen in Terrence Malick’s 1973 crime drama.
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E.
Mattie
Mattie is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a familiar or affectionate form of names like Martha.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| alignment | outlaw gang leader ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West
ⓘ
linked to:
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Frank
ⓘ
Harmonica ⓘ Jill McBain ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Italy ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Bernardo Bertolucci
ⓘ
Sergio Donati ⓘ Sergio Leone ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | Western film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Once Upon a Time in the West ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Spaghetti Western character ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
morally ambiguous ⓘ rough charm ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Italian cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antihero ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex morality
ⓘ
pivotal role in plot development ⓘ witty dialogue ⓘ |
| occupation | outlaw ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jason Robards ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| setting |
American Old West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| storyFunction | aids protagonists against main antagonist ⓘ |
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: Cheyenne (character) Description of subject: Cheyenne is a charismatic outlaw and key supporting character in Sergio Leone’s Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," known for his rough charm, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s unfolding.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.