Billy the Kid (1930 film)
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Billy the Kid (1930 film) is a pre-Code Western starring Johnny Mack Brown as the legendary outlaw in one of the early sound-era depictions of the famous gunslinger.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Billy the Kid (1930 film) canonical | 2 |
| Billy the Kid (1931 serial) | 1 |
| Billy the Kid film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10782570 — 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: Billy the Kid (1930 film) Context triple: [Johnny Mack Brown, notableWork, Billy the Kid (1930 film)]
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A.
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)
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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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.
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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E.
Hopalong Cassidy film series
The Hopalong Cassidy film series is a collection of classic American Western movies centered on the clean-cut cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy, which became one of the most popular and influential Western franchises of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Billy the Kid (1930 film) Target entity description: Billy the Kid (1930 film) is a pre-Code Western starring Johnny Mack Brown as the legendary outlaw in one of the early sound-era depictions of the famous gunslinger.
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A.
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)
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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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.
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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E.
Hopalong Cassidy film series
The Hopalong Cassidy film series is a collection of classic American Western movies centered on the clean-cut cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy, which became one of the most popular and influential Western franchises of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Billy the Kid ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Glen MacWilliams ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | King Vidor ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Conrad A. Nervig ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
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pre-Code film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
James A. Marcus
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John Beck ⓘ Johnny Mack Brown ⓘ Karl Dane ⓘ Kay Johnson ⓘ Lloyd Ingraham ⓘ Otis Harlan ⓘ Roscoe Ates ⓘ Russell Simpson ⓘ Wallace Beery ⓘ Warner Richmond ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Billy the Kid ⓘ |
| notableFor | early sound-era depiction of Billy the Kid ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | pre-Code Hollywood era ⓘ |
| portrays | outlaw ⓘ |
| producer | Irving Thalberg ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
C. Gardner Sullivan
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Laurence Stallings ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
American Old West
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linked to:
Old West
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| titleCharacterPlayedBy | Johnny Mack Brown ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Billy the Kid (1930 film) Description of subject: Billy the Kid (1930 film) is a pre-Code Western starring Johnny Mack Brown as the legendary outlaw in one of the early sound-era depictions of the famous gunslinger.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Billy the Kid (1930 film)
subject linked to:
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)
linked to: Billy the Kid (1930 film)