Jack McCall
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Jack McCall was an American drifter best known for assassinating the famed gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack McCall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286250 — 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: Jack McCall Context triple: [Wild Bill Hickok, killedBy, Jack McCall]
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A.
Robert McCall
Robert McCall is a former intelligence operative who uses his skills to vigilantly protect the vulnerable and deliver justice in "The Equalizer" franchise.
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B.
Robert McCall
Robert McCall was an American space artist and illustrator renowned for his visionary depictions of space exploration and his artwork for NASA missions and popular science fiction films.
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C.
William Jack
William Jack was a 19th-century Scottish botanist known for his pioneering work on the flora of Southeast Asia and for describing numerous plant genera and species.
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D.
Doyle Lonnegan
Doyle Lonnegan is the ruthless Irish-American crime boss and high-stakes gambler who serves as the primary antagonist in the classic con-artist film "The Sting."
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E.
Henry Barrow
Henry Barrow was a prominent 16th-century English Separatist leader and religious writer who advocated for congregational independence from the Church of England and was executed for his nonconformist beliefs.
- 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: Jack McCall Target entity description: Jack McCall was an American drifter best known for assassinating the famed gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876.
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A.
Robert McCall
Robert McCall is a former intelligence operative who uses his skills to vigilantly protect the vulnerable and deliver justice in "The Equalizer" franchise.
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B.
Robert McCall
Robert McCall was an American space artist and illustrator renowned for his visionary depictions of space exploration and his artwork for NASA missions and popular science fiction films.
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C.
William Jack
William Jack was a 19th-century Scottish botanist known for his pioneering work on the flora of Southeast Asia and for describing numerous plant genera and species.
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D.
Doyle Lonnegan
Doyle Lonnegan is the ruthless Irish-American crime boss and high-stakes gambler who serves as the primary antagonist in the classic con-artist film "The Sting."
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E.
Henry Barrow
Henry Barrow was a prominent 16th-century English Separatist leader and religious writer who advocated for congregational independence from the Church of England and was executed for his nonconformist beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American drifter
ⓘ
assassin ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Deadwood, South Dakota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wild Bill Hickok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
murder
ⓘ
murder of Wild Bill Hickok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1852 ⓘ |
| dateOfCrime | 1876-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1877-03-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventParticipatedIn | killing of Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | shooting Wild Bill Hickok while Hickok was playing poker ⓘ |
| legalOutcome |
federal retrial conviction in Yankton
ⓘ
first trial acquittal in Deadwood ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassination of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood in 1876 ⓘ |
| notableFor | assassination of Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ |
| occupation |
drifter
ⓘ
gambler ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfCrime |
Deadwood, Dakota Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deadwood, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Yankton, Dakota Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yankton, South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shotFrom | behind ⓘ |
| triedBy | federal court in Yankton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWeapon | revolver ⓘ |
| victimOfKilling | Wild Bill Hickok 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: Jack McCall Description of subject: Jack McCall was an American drifter best known for assassinating the famed gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.