gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)
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The gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) was a famous Old West shootout involving Wild Bill Hickok that became one of the earliest and most legendary examples of the classic face-to-face pistol duel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286257 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) Context triple: [Wild Bill Hickok, notableWork, gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)]
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Johnson County War
The Johnson County War was a violent late-19th-century conflict in Wyoming between large cattle barons and smaller settlers and rustlers, emblematic of the lawlessness and power struggles of the American Wild West.
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B.
Lincoln County War
The Lincoln County War was a violent 1878 frontier conflict in New Mexico involving rival economic factions and famous gunmen like Billy the Kid, emblematic of lawlessness in the American Wild West.
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C.
Baxter Springs Massacre
The Baxter Springs Massacre was an 1863 Civil War attack in which Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill ambushed and killed a large number of Union soldiers and civilians near Baxter Springs, Kansas.
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D.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a legendary 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, involving lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday that became one of the most famous events of the American Wild West.
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E.
Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
- 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: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) Target entity description: The gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) was a famous Old West shootout involving Wild Bill Hickok that became one of the earliest and most legendary examples of the classic face-to-face pistol duel.
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A.
Johnson County War
The Johnson County War was a violent late-19th-century conflict in Wyoming between large cattle barons and smaller settlers and rustlers, emblematic of the lawlessness and power struggles of the American Wild West.
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B.
Lincoln County War
The Lincoln County War was a violent 1878 frontier conflict in New Mexico involving rival economic factions and famous gunmen like Billy the Kid, emblematic of lawlessness in the American Wild West.
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C.
Baxter Springs Massacre
The Baxter Springs Massacre was an 1863 Civil War attack in which Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill ambushed and killed a large number of Union soldiers and civilians near Baxter Springs, Kansas.
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D.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a legendary 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, involving lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday that became one of the most famous events of the American Wild West.
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E.
Marais des Cygnes massacre
The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old West shootout
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gunfight ⓘ historical event ⓘ |
| hasAftermath |
became a model for later fictional Western showdowns
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event widely reported in contemporary newspapers ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Hickok–Tutt duel
NERFINISHED
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Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCause |
dispute over a pocket watch
ⓘ
dispute over gambling debt ⓘ |
| hasCitySetting | Springfield town square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasCulturalDepiction |
featured in later Western histories and biographies of Wild Bill Hickok
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recounted in early dime novels ⓘ |
| hasDate | July 21, 1865 ⓘ |
| hasDistanceBetweenOpponents | about 75 yards ⓘ |
| hasEra | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | Western folklore ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
helped establish the Wild Bill Hickok legend
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one of the earliest documented Old West quick-draw duels ⓘ |
| hasLegalOutcome | not guilty verdict ⓘ |
| hasLegalProceeding | murder trial of Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ |
| hasLocation | Springfield, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutcome |
Wild Bill Hickok acquitted
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death of Davis Tutt ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Davis Tutt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wild Bill Hickok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResult | Hickok shot Tutt through the heart ⓘ |
| hasState | Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | face-to-face pistol duel ⓘ |
| hasWeaponUsed | cap-and-ball revolver ⓘ |
| hasYear | 1865 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) Description of subject: The gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) was a famous Old West shootout involving Wild Bill Hickok that became one of the earliest and most legendary examples of the classic face-to-face pistol duel.
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