Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was a notorious American bank robber of the early 1930s, often romanticized as a Depression-era outlaw and sometimes viewed as a Robin Hood figure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9057627 — 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: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Context triple: [Pretty Boy Floyd, subject, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd]
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A.
Frank James
Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
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B.
Curly Bill Brocius
Curly Bill Brocius is a notorious Old West outlaw and leader of the Cowboys gang, famously depicted as a central antagonist in the film "Tombstone."
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C.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- 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: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Target entity description: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was a notorious American bank robber of the early 1930s, often romanticized as a Depression-era outlaw and sometimes viewed as a Robin Hood figure.
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A.
Frank James
Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
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B.
Curly Bill Brocius
Curly Bill Brocius is a notorious Old West outlaw and leader of the Cowboys gang, famously depicted as a central antagonist in the film "Tombstone."
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C.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter whose exploits helped define the mythology of the Wild West.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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E.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bank robber
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criminal ⓘ human ⓘ outlaw ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1934 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| allegedActivity | destroying mortgage documents during bank robberies ⓘ |
| areaOfOperation |
Kansas
NERFINISHED
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Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Kansas City Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| child | Jack Dempsey Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
bank robbery
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robbery ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction |
subject of books
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subject of films ⓘ subject of songs ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-02-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1934-10-22 ⓘ |
| era | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of European descent ⓘ |
| FBIStatus |
Public Enemy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Public Enemy No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Arthur Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed by law enforcement ⓘ |
| mediaPortrayal |
depicted as a Robin Hood-style outlaw
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romanticized as a folk hero ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | song "Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Pretty Boy Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableContemporaries |
Baby Face Nelson
GENERATED
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Bonnie Parker GENERATED ⓘ Clyde Barrow GENERATED ⓘ John Dillinger GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Depression-era outlaw activities
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bank robberies during the Great Depression ⓘ reputation as a Robin Hood figure ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank robber
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gangster ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Adairsville, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | East Liverpool, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
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local law enforcement in the Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruby Hardgraves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Description of subject: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was a notorious American bank robber of the early 1930s, often romanticized as a Depression-era outlaw and sometimes viewed as a Robin Hood figure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.