the Earp brothers
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The Earp brothers were a famed frontier lawman family of the American Old West, best known for their role in the legendary gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
All labels observed (1)
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| the Earp brothers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9286000 — 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: the Earp brothers Context triple: [Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, hasParticipantGroup, the Earp brothers]
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A.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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B.
Virgil Earp
Virgil Earp was an American Old West lawman best known as the older brother of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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C.
Morgan Earp
Morgan Earp was an American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West, best known as Wyatt Earp’s younger brother and a participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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D.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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E.
Curly Bill Brocius
Curly Bill Brocius is a notorious Old West outlaw and leader of the Cowboys gang, famously depicted as a central antagonist in the film "Tombstone."
- 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: the Earp brothers Target entity description: The Earp brothers were a famed frontier lawman family of the American Old West, best known for their role in the legendary gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
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A.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American biographical Western film that chronicles the life of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner in the title role.
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B.
Virgil Earp
Virgil Earp was an American Old West lawman best known as the older brother of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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C.
Morgan Earp
Morgan Earp was an American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West, best known as Wyatt Earp’s younger brother and a participant in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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D.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a 1973 film soundtrack album by Bob Dylan, notable for featuring the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."
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E.
Curly Bill Brocius
Curly Bill Brocius is a notorious Old West outlaw and leader of the Cowboys gang, famously depicted as a central antagonist in the film "Tombstone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of siblings
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gunfight ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American Old West
NERFINISHED
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Tombstone, Arizona Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Earp
NERFINISHED
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Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfFame | Western folklore ⓘ |
| givenName | Wyatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | Nicholas Porter Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
James Earp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morgan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgil Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyatt Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Virginia Ann Cooksey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Earp Vendetta Ride
NERFINISHED
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
NERFINISHED
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ conflict with the Cowboys in Tombstone, Arizona ⓘ law enforcement in the American Old West ⓘ |
| occupation |
cowboy
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gambler ⓘ gamblers ⓘ lawman ⓘ lawman ⓘ lawman ⓘ lawmen ⓘ saloon keeper ⓘ saloon keeper ⓘ saloon keepers ⓘ teamsters ⓘ |
| participant |
Morgan Earp
NERFINISHED
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Virgil Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyatt Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Western films
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television series about the American West ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Tombstone city marshal ⓘ |
| sibling |
James Earp
NERFINISHED
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Morgan Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgil Earp NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Earp 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: the Earp brothers Description of subject: The Earp brothers were a famed frontier lawman family of the American Old West, best known for their role in the legendary gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.