Sheriff William "Red" Angus
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Sheriff William "Red" Angus was a Wyoming lawman known for his controversial role in the late-19th-century Johnson County War, a violent conflict between large cattle barons and smaller settlers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sheriff William "Red" Angus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286057 — 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: Sheriff William "Red" Angus Context triple: [Johnson County War, involvedPerson, Sheriff William "Red" Angus]
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A.
Sheriff Titus Semple
Sheriff Titus Semple is the corrupt, manipulative lawman who serves as the primary antagonist in the drama series "Flamingo Road."
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B.
Sheriff Calder
Sheriff Calder is the principled small-town lawman portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1966 drama film "The Chase," known for trying to maintain order amid escalating violence and corruption.
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C.
Sheriff George Bannerman
Sheriff George Bannerman is a fictional lawman from Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," known for working with psychic Johnny Smith to investigate a series of murders.
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D.
Sheriff John T. Chance
Sheriff John T. Chance is the steadfast, principled lawman portrayed by John Wayne who defends a small town against outlaws in the classic Western film "Rio Bravo."
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E.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
- 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: Sheriff William "Red" Angus Target entity description: Sheriff William "Red" Angus was a Wyoming lawman known for his controversial role in the late-19th-century Johnson County War, a violent conflict between large cattle barons and smaller settlers.
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A.
Sheriff Titus Semple
Sheriff Titus Semple is the corrupt, manipulative lawman who serves as the primary antagonist in the drama series "Flamingo Road."
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B.
Sheriff Calder
Sheriff Calder is the principled small-town lawman portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1966 drama film "The Chase," known for trying to maintain order amid escalating violence and corruption.
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C.
Sheriff George Bannerman
Sheriff George Bannerman is a fictional lawman from Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," known for working with psychic Johnny Smith to investigate a series of murders.
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D.
Sheriff John T. Chance
Sheriff John T. Chance is the steadfast, principled lawman portrayed by John Wayne who defends a small town against outlaws in the classic Western film "Rio Bravo."
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E.
Sheriff Sam Galt
Sheriff Sam Galt is the principled frontier lawman protagonist of the Western film "The Iron Sheriff."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | sheriff ⓘ |
| activity | law enforcement during the Johnson County War ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
large cattle interests in Wyoming
ⓘ
small settlers in Johnson County ⓘ |
| conflict | Johnson County War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controversy |
alleged partiality toward cattle barons
ⓘ
treatment of small ranchers and settlers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Angus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | frontier law enforcement ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Johnson County, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | controversial actions during the Johnson County War ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementArea | Johnson County, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Red NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Johnson County War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Johnson County War ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawman
ⓘ
sheriff ⓘ |
| participantIn | range conflicts in Wyoming ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
Buffalo, Wyoming
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johnson County, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sheriff of Johnson County, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Wyoming Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Buffalo, Wyoming
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johnson County, Wyoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sheriff William "Red" Angus Description of subject: Sheriff William "Red" Angus was a Wyoming lawman known for his controversial role in the late-19th-century Johnson County War, a violent conflict between large cattle barons and smaller settlers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.