Jill McBain
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Jill McBain is a central character in the classic Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," portrayed as a resilient former prostitute whose arrival in a frontier town triggers a violent struggle over land and power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jill McBain canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7726470 — 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: Jill McBain Context triple: [Once Upon a Time in the West (score), usesLeitmotifsFor, Jill McBain]
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A.
Jill McCormick
Jill McCormick is an American former fashion model and philanthropist best known as the wife of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
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B.
Julie Ferguson
Julie Ferguson is the wife of the late American actor and comedian Charles Grodin.
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C.
Lisa Baird
Lisa Baird is an American sports executive who served as commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
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D.
Ann McKean
Ann McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Kimberly Drummond
Kimberly Drummond is a central character on the American sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," known as the teenage daughter in the wealthy Drummond family who helps bridge the cultural gap with her adopted brothers.
- 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: Jill McBain Target entity description: Jill McBain is a central character in the classic Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," portrayed as a resilient former prostitute whose arrival in a frontier town triggers a violent struggle over land and power.
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A.
Jill McCormick
Jill McCormick is an American former fashion model and philanthropist best known as the wife of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
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B.
Julie Ferguson
Julie Ferguson is the wife of the late American actor and comedian Charles Grodin.
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C.
Lisa Baird
Lisa Baird is an American sports executive who served as commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
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D.
Ann McKean
Ann McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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E.
Kimberly Drummond
Kimberly Drummond is a central character on the American sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," known as the teenage daughter in the wealthy Drummond family who helps bridge the cultural gap with her adopted brothers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Once Upon a Time in the West ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
female agency in the Old West
ⓘ
frontier capitalism ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
Italy
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Sergio Leone ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Once Upon a Time in the West ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | Western film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatusInStory | widow ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | triggers conflict over land and power ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
independent
ⓘ
resilient ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a complex female lead in a Spaghetti Western ⓘ |
| occupation |
prostitute
ⓘ
saloon keeper ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Once Upon a Time trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
Once Upon a Time Trilogy
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| portrayedBy | Claudia Cardinale ⓘ |
| residesInStory | frontier town near Flagstone ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
American Old West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
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: Jill McBain Description of subject: Jill McBain is a central character in the classic Western film "Once Upon a Time in the West," portrayed as a resilient former prostitute whose arrival in a frontier town triggers a violent struggle over land and power.
Referenced by (7)
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