Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)
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Billy the Kid in Texas is a 1940 American Western film starring Bob Steele as the legendary outlaw navigating lawlessness and frontier justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9552808 — 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)
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Target entity: Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film) Context triple: [Bob Steele, notableWork, Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)]
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A.
The Durango Kid (1940 film)
The Durango Kid (1940 film) is a Western movie that introduced Charles Starrett’s famous masked cowboy persona, which became the basis for a long-running film series.
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B.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah that dramatizes the legendary conflict between outlaw Billy the Kid and lawman Pat Garrett.
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C.
Durango Kid film series
The Durango Kid film series is a collection of mid-20th-century American B-Western movies featuring a masked cowboy hero who fights outlaws and injustice.
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D.
Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
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E.
The Outlaw (1943 film)
The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film) Target entity description: Billy the Kid in Texas is a 1940 American Western film starring Bob Steele as the legendary outlaw navigating lawlessness and frontier justice.
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A.
The Durango Kid (1940 film)
The Durango Kid (1940 film) is a Western movie that introduced Charles Starrett’s famous masked cowboy persona, which became the basis for a long-running film series.
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B.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah that dramatizes the legendary conflict between outlaw Billy the Kid and lawman Pat Garrett.
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C.
Durango Kid film series
The Durango Kid film series is a collection of mid-20th-century American B-Western movies featuring a masked cowboy hero who fights outlaws and injustice.
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D.
Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
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E.
The Outlaw (1943 film)
The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Billy the Kid ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character | Billy the Kid ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jack Greenhalgh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Sam Newfield ⓘ |
| distributor | Producers Releasing Corporation ⓘ |
| editedBy | Holbrook N. Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Billy the Kid’s Gun Justice ⓘ |
| leadActor | Bob Steele ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lew Porter ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
frontier justice
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lawlessness ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Billy the Kid film series
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linked to:
Billy the Kid (1930 film)
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| portrays | outlaw ⓘ |
| producer | Sigmund Neufeld ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Producers Releasing Corporation ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 52 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Fred Myton ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Texas ⓘ |
| starring |
Al St. John
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Bob Steele ⓘ Carleton Young ⓘ Charles King ⓘ John Merton ⓘ Phyllis Adair ⓘ Rex Lease ⓘ |
| title | Billy the Kid in Texas ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film) Description of subject: Billy the Kid in Texas is a 1940 American Western film starring Bob Steele as the legendary outlaw navigating lawlessness and frontier justice.
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