Cole Younger
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Cole Younger was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, known for bank and train robberies across the Midwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cole Younger canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10322533 — 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: Cole Younger Context triple: [Jesse James, hasRelative, Cole Younger]
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A.
James Younger
James Younger is a television producer and filmmaker best known for creating and producing documentary series such as "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman."
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B.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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C.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and bank robber who became a legendary figure of the Wild West.
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E.
Frank James
Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
- 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: Cole Younger Target entity description: Cole Younger was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, known for bank and train robberies across the Midwest.
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A.
James Younger
James Younger is a television producer and filmmaker best known for creating and producing documentary series such as "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman."
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B.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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C.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
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D.
Jesse James
Jesse James was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and bank robber who became a legendary figure of the Wild West.
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E.
Frank James
Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
member of the James–Younger Gang
ⓘ
outlaw ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYears |
1860s
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1870s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Quantrill's Raiders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1844-01-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Jackson County, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery, Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf | robbery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfCapture | 1876-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfParole | 1901-07-10 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1916-03-21 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | White American ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Coleman Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bank robberies in the American Midwest
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train robberies in the American Midwest ⓘ |
| laterOccupation |
author
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lecturer ⓘ |
| laterResidence | Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | James–Younger Gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | Confederate guerrillas ⓘ |
| nickname | Cole Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAssociate |
Frank James
NERFINISHED
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Jesse James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery attempt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Participation in James–Younger Gang robberies ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank robber
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outlaw ⓘ train robber ⓘ |
| parent |
Bersheba Leighton Fristoe Younger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Washington Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfCapture | near Madelia, Minnesota, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfImprisonment | Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1903 ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sentence | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bob Younger
NERFINISHED
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Jim Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ John Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cole Younger Description of subject: Cole Younger was a notorious 19th-century American outlaw and member of the James–Younger Gang, known for bank and train robberies across the Midwest.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.