Richard Brewer
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Richard Brewer was an American cowboy and ranch foreman who became a key leader of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico in the late 1870s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Brewer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9323748 — 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: Richard Brewer Context triple: [Lincoln County War, notableParticipant, Richard Brewer]
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A.
John T. Woolley
John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
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B.
John C. Hitt
John C. Hitt is an American academic leader best known for his long tenure as president of the University of Central Florida, during which he oversaw major growth in the institution’s size, reputation, and research profile.
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C.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
William Buckley
William Buckley is an American conservative author, commentator, and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977.
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E.
William Buckley
William Buckley is the son of American political satirist and novelist Christopher Buckley.
- 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: Richard Brewer Target entity description: Richard Brewer was an American cowboy and ranch foreman who became a key leader of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico in the late 1870s.
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A.
John T. Woolley
John T. Woolley is a political scientist and academic known for co-founding the American Presidency Project, a major online archive of U.S. presidential documents.
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B.
John C. Hitt
John C. Hitt is an American academic leader best known for his long tenure as president of the University of Central Florida, during which he oversaw major growth in the institution’s size, reputation, and research profile.
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C.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
William Buckley
William Buckley is an American conservative author, commentator, and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from New York from 1971 to 1977.
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E.
William Buckley
William Buckley is the son of American political satirist and novelist Christopher Buckley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American cowboy
ⓘ
Regulators leader ⓘ outlaw ⓘ person ⓘ ranch foreman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Billy the Kid
ⓘ
Regulators (Lincoln County War) ⓘ
linked to:
Lincoln County Regulators
|
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| conflict | Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Brewer ⓘ |
| genre | Old West figure ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| movement | Regulators ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader of the Regulators ⓘ |
| occupation |
cowboy
ⓘ
gunfighter ⓘ ranch foreman ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
ⓘ
linked to:
Lincoln County, New Mexico
New Mexico Territory ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
ⓘ
linked to:
Lincoln County, New Mexico
|
| timePeriod | late 1870s ⓘ |
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: Richard Brewer Description of subject: Richard Brewer was an American cowboy and ranch foreman who became a key leader of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War in New Mexico in the late 1870s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.