gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)

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Old West shootout gunfight historical event

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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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Hickok–Tutt duel	1
Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout	1
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.

NED1 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)]

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ⓘ gunfight ⓘ historical event ⓘ
hasAftermath	became a model for later fictional Western showdowns ⓘ event widely reported in contemporary newspapers ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Hickok–Tutt duel ⓘ linked to: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout ⓘ linked to: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)
hasCause	dispute over a pocket watch ⓘ dispute over gambling debt ⓘ
hasCitySetting	Springfield town square ⓘ
hasCountry	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
hasCulturalDepiction	featured in later Western histories and biographies of Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ recounted in early dime novels ⓘ
hasDate	July 21, 1865 ⓘ
hasDistanceBetweenOpponents	about 75 yards ⓘ
hasEra	American Old West ⓘ linked to: Old West
hasGenreContext	Western folklore ⓘ
hasHistoricalSignificance	helped establish the Wild Bill Hickok legend ⓘ one of the earliest documented Old West quick-draw duels ⓘ
hasLegalOutcome	not guilty verdict ⓘ
hasLegalProceeding	murder trial of Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ
hasLocation	Springfield, Missouri ⓘ
hasOutcome	Wild Bill Hickok acquitted ⓘ death of Davis Tutt ⓘ
hasParticipant	Davis Tutt ⓘ Wild Bill Hickok ⓘ
hasResult	Hickok shot Tutt through the heart ⓘ
hasState	Missouri ⓘ
hasType	face-to-face pistol duel ⓘ
hasWeaponUsed	cap-and-ball revolver ⓘ
hasYear	1865 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wild Bill Hickok → notableWork → gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) ⓘ

gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) → hasAlternativeName → Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout ⓘ

linked to: gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865)

gunfight at Springfield, Missouri (1865) → hasAlternativeName → Hickok–Tutt duel ⓘ