Northwest Smith
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Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northwest Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8493869 — 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: Northwest Smith Context triple: [C. L. Moore, notableCharacterCreated, Northwest Smith]
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Brooks West
Brooks West was an American actor and producer best known for his work in film and radio and for being married to actress Eve Arden.
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C.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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D.
Knowland
Knowland is a surname most notably associated with William F. Knowland, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and newspaper publisher.
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E.
Ogden Rood
Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
- 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: Northwest Smith Target entity description: Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Brooks West
Brooks West was an American actor and producer best known for his work in film and radio and for being married to actress Eve Arden.
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C.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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D.
Knowland
Knowland is a surname most notably associated with William F. Knowland, a prominent mid-20th-century American politician and newspaper publisher.
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E.
Ogden Rood
Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ pulp magazine character ⓘ science fiction character ⓘ |
| alignment | lawless ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Northwest of Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Henry Kuttner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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hard-bitten ⓘ morally ambiguous ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| companionSpecies | Venusian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | C. L. Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | gray ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Shambleau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Weird Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Yarol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWeapon |
blaster
ⓘ
ray-gun ⓘ |
| influenced | later spacefaring antiheroes in science fiction ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | space opera ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | weird fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | scarred face ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Thirst
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dust of Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ Julhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Lost Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ Quest of the Starstone NERFINISHED ⓘ Scarlet Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Shambleau NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cold Gray God NERFINISHED ⓘ Tree of Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Yvala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
outlaw
ⓘ
smuggler ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| setting |
Mars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Solar System NERFINISHED ⓘ Venus NERFINISHED ⓘ future ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
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: Northwest Smith Description of subject: Northwest Smith is a classic pulp science fiction antihero, a hard-bitten spacefaring outlaw featured in C. L. Moore’s influential 1930s stories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.