Richard Hickock
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Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Hickock canonical | 6 |
| Richard Hickock was a former Kansas State Penitentiary inmate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8501166 — 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: Richard Hickock Context triple: [Infamous, portrays, Richard Hickock]
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A.
Lee Meredith
Lee Meredith is an American actress and model best known for her comedic roles in 1960s–1970s film and television, including appearances in works by Mel Brooks.
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B.
Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
William Holmes
William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
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E.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
- 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: Richard Hickock Target entity description: Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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A.
Lee Meredith
Lee Meredith is an American actress and model best known for her comedic roles in 1960s–1970s film and television, including appearances in works by Mel Brooks.
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B.
Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter is the prosperous, devout Kansas farmer and family man whose 1959 murder is central to Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
William Holmes
William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
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E.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American criminal
ⓘ
murderer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | Las Vegas, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
armed robbery
ⓘ
burglary ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| coPerpetratorWith | Perry Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | first-degree murder ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-06-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-04-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Olathe High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Kansas State Penitentiary (former inmate) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| executedBy | State of Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hickock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | true crime ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | true crime literature ⓘ |
| incarceratedIn | Kansas State Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas ⓘ |
| notableFor | murder of the Clutter family ⓘ |
| notableWork | In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal
ⓘ
mechanic ⓘ |
| participantIn | Clutter family murders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | Clutter family murders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lansing, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Kansas State Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Anthony Edwards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
In Cold Blood (1967 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In Cold Blood (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentence | death penalty ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | In Cold Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialHeldIn | Garden City, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard Hickock Description of subject: Richard Hickock was one of the two American ex-convicts who brutally murdered the Clutter family in 1959, a crime later chronicled in Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Hickock was a former Kansas State Penitentiary inmate