Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch
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Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch was a notorious late-19th-century American outlaw gang known for robbing banks, trains, and payrolls across the Western United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch canonical | 3 |
| Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch | 1 |
| Cassidy’s Wild Bunch | 1 |
| The Wild Bunch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9742521 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch Context triple: [Sundance Kid, memberOf, Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch]
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A.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is a classic 1969 American Western film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as charismatic outlaws on the run at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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C.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, renowned for its gritty portrayal of aging outlaws and its groundbreaking, balletic depictions of graphic violence.
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D.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch was a pioneering Bristol sound system and DJ collective in the 1980s that fused hip hop, reggae, funk, and punk, and later gave rise to the group Massive Attack.
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E.
Wild Billy
Wild Billy is a free-spirited, hard-partying character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” embodying youthful rebellion and nocturnal adventure.
- 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: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch Target entity description: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch was a notorious late-19th-century American outlaw gang known for robbing banks, trains, and payrolls across the Western United States.
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A.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is a classic 1969 American Western film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as charismatic outlaws on the run at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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C.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, renowned for its gritty portrayal of aging outlaws and its groundbreaking, balletic depictions of graphic violence.
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D.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch was a pioneering Bristol sound system and DJ collective in the 1980s that fused hip hop, reggae, funk, and punk, and later gave rise to the group Massive Attack.
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E.
Wild Billy
Wild Billy is a free-spirited, hard-partying character from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Spirit in the Night,” embodying youthful rebellion and nocturnal adventure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | outlaw gang ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American West
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Colorado ⓘ Idaho ⓘ Montana ⓘ New Mexico Territory ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ Utah ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Hole-in-the-Wall, Wyoming ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criminalActivity |
armed robbery
ⓘ
bank robbery in the Intermountain West ⓘ horse theft ⓘ |
| era | closing years of the American Old West ⓘ |
| fate | dispersed under law-enforcement pressure ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
ⓘ
The Wild Bunch ⓘ |
| hasPart | Butch Cassidy–Sundance Kid partnership ⓘ |
| historicalContext | transition from frontier era to modern law enforcement in the United States ⓘ |
| influenced | popular culture depictions of the American West ⓘ |
| leader | Butch Cassidy ⓘ |
| member |
Ben Kilpatrick
ⓘ
Butch Cassidy ⓘ Elzy Lay ⓘ Etta Place ⓘ Flat-Nose Curry ⓘ George Curry ⓘ Harry Longabaugh ⓘ Harvey Logan ⓘ Kid Curry ⓘ Laura Bullion ⓘ The Sundance Kid ⓘ
linked to:
The Legend of Butch & Sundance
The Tall Texan ⓘ Will Carver ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Great Northern train robbery near Wagner, Montana, 1901
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Union Pacific Overland Flyer train robbery at Wilcox, Wyoming, 1899 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bank robbery
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payroll robbery ⓘ train robbery ⓘ |
| operationalStyle |
carefully planned robberies
ⓘ
use of fresh horses at relay points ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
ⓘ
United States law enforcement ⓘ
linked to:
United States federal law enforcement
|
| timePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch Description of subject: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch was a notorious late-19th-century American outlaw gang known for robbing banks, trains, and payrolls across the Western United States.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch
subject linked to:
Longabaugh
linked to: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch
linked to: Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch