the Cowboys
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The Cowboys were an outlaw gang of loosely organized cattle rustlers and bandits in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, who famously clashed with lawmen like the Earp brothers in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| the Cowboys canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286001 — 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: the Cowboys Context triple: [Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, hasParticipantGroup, the Cowboys]
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A.
The Cowboys
The Cowboys is a 1972 Western film starring John Wayne as a rancher who recruits schoolboys to help him drive his cattle to market.
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B.
Cowboys
The Cowboys are the athletic teams representing Oklahoma State University in NCAA collegiate sports.
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C.
Cowboys
Cowboys is the common short name for the North Queensland Cowboys, a professional rugby league team based in Townsville, Queensland, that competes in Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL).
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D.
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, known for their storied history, multiple Super Bowl titles, and status as one of the NFL’s most popular and valuable franchises.
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E.
Dallas Texans
The Dallas Texans were a short-lived American Football League team that later relocated and became the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 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: the Cowboys Target entity description: The Cowboys were an outlaw gang of loosely organized cattle rustlers and bandits in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, who famously clashed with lawmen like the Earp brothers in the late 19th century.
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A.
The Cowboys
The Cowboys is a 1972 Western film starring John Wayne as a rancher who recruits schoolboys to help him drive his cattle to market.
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B.
Cowboys
The Cowboys are the athletic teams representing Oklahoma State University in NCAA collegiate sports.
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C.
Cowboys
Cowboys is the common short name for the North Queensland Cowboys, a professional rugby league team based in Townsville, Queensland, that competes in Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL).
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D.
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, known for their storied history, multiple Super Bowl titles, and status as one of the NFL’s most popular and valuable franchises.
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E.
Dallas Texans
The Dallas Texans were a short-lived American Football League team that later relocated and became the Kansas City Chiefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | outlaw gang ⓘ |
| activeDuring | late 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Old West
ⓘ
Tombstone, Arizona ⓘ |
| basedNear |
Tombstone, Arizona Territory
ⓘ
linked to:
Tombstone, Arizona
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criminalActivity |
armed robbery
ⓘ
cattle theft ⓘ horse theft ⓘ |
| era | American frontier period ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Cochise County Cowboys
ⓘ
Cowboys of Cochise County ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Billy Claiborne
ⓘ
Billy Clanton ⓘ Florentino “Indian Charlie” Cruz ⓘ
linked to:
Florentino Cruz
Frank McLaury ⓘ Frank Stilwell ⓘ Ike Clanton ⓘ Johnny Ringo ⓘ Pete Spence ⓘ Phineas Clanton ⓘ
linked to:
Phin Clanton
Tom McLaury ⓘ “Curly Bill” Brocius ⓘ
linked to:
Curly Bill Brocius
|
| historicalReputation | violent criminal gang ⓘ |
| involvedInEvent |
Earp Vendetta Ride
ⓘ
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ⓘ attempted assassination of Virgil Earp ⓘ murder of Morgan Earp ⓘ
linked to:
Earp–Cowboy conflict in Arizona Territory
|
| knownFor |
banditry
ⓘ
cattle rustling ⓘ conflict with the Earp brothers ⓘ stagecoach robbery ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | outlawed ⓘ |
| notableRival | lawmen of Tombstone ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Arizona Territory
ⓘ
Cochise County, Arizona Territory ⓘ
linked to:
Cochise County, Arizona
|
| opposedBy |
Doc Holliday
ⓘ
linked to:
J. H. “Doc” Holliday
Morgan Earp ⓘ Virgil Earp ⓘ Wyatt Earp ⓘ |
| organizationType | loosely organized gang ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
books about Wyatt Earp
ⓘ
films about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | cross-border cattle rustling from Mexico ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
U.S.–Mexico borderlands
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S.–Mexico borderlands region
southeastern Arizona ⓘ |
| timePeriodEnd | early 1880s ⓘ |
| timePeriodStart | circa 1870s ⓘ |
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: the Cowboys Description of subject: The Cowboys were an outlaw gang of loosely organized cattle rustlers and bandits in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, who famously clashed with lawmen like the Earp brothers in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.