Louis Burton Lindley Jr.
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Louis Burton Lindley Jr., better known as Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer turned character actor famed for his comic Western roles and his iconic ride on a nuclear bomb in the film "Dr. Strangelove."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis Burton Lindley Jr. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392498 — 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: Louis Burton Lindley Jr. Context triple: [Slim Pickens, birthName, Louis Burton Lindley Jr.]
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Lewis F. Linn
Lewis F. Linn was a 19th-century American physician and U.S. Senator from Missouri known for his advocacy of U.S. expansion into the Oregon Territory.
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B.
Robert Maclay Widney
Robert Maclay Widney was a 19th-century American judge, civic leader, and educator best known for spearheading the creation of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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C.
Meade Lux Lewis
Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
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E.
Leland J. Hamlin
Leland J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hamlin surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
- 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: Louis Burton Lindley Jr. Target entity description: Louis Burton Lindley Jr., better known as Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer turned character actor famed for his comic Western roles and his iconic ride on a nuclear bomb in the film "Dr. Strangelove."
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A.
Lewis F. Linn
Lewis F. Linn was a 19th-century American physician and U.S. Senator from Missouri known for his advocacy of U.S. expansion into the Oregon Territory.
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B.
Robert Maclay Widney
Robert Maclay Widney was a 19th-century American judge, civic leader, and educator best known for spearheading the creation of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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C.
Meade Lux Lewis
Meade Lux Lewis was an influential American pianist and composer best known for helping popularize boogie-woogie music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd
Lewis M. Rutherfurd was a 19th-century American lawyer-turned-astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer known for his influential work in celestial photography and astronomical instrumentation.
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E.
Leland J. Hamlin
Leland J. Hamlin is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hamlin surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ rodeo performer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cremated ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumor ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Strangelove
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-06-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983-12-08 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comic Western roles
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riding a nuclear bomb in Dr. Strangelove ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Louis Burton Lindley Jr. ⓘ |
| nativeOf |
California
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linked to:
California (state)
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| notableWork |
1941 (1979 film)
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linked to:
1941
Blazing Saddles ⓘ Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Strangelove
One-Eyed Jacks ⓘ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
The Cowboys (1972 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Cowboys (novel)
The Getaway (1972 film) ⓘ The Howling (1981 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Howling
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| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ cowboy ⓘ film actor ⓘ radio actor ⓘ rodeo performer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingsburg, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Fresno, California, United States
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linked to:
Fresno
|
| portrayed | Major T. J. "King" Kong ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| servedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Harmon ⓘ |
| stageName | Slim Pickens ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Mel Brooks
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Stanley Kubrick ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1946–1983 ⓘ |
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: Louis Burton Lindley Jr. Description of subject: Louis Burton Lindley Jr., better known as Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer turned character actor famed for his comic Western roles and his iconic ride on a nuclear bomb in the film "Dr. Strangelove."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.