Terrill ranch
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Terrill ranch is a fictional Western cattle ranch featured in the 1958 film "The Big Country," central to the story’s land and water rights conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terrill ranch canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11082115 — 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: Terrill ranch Context triple: [James McKay, associatedLocationInFilm, Terrill ranch]
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A.
Dorris Ranch
Dorris Ranch is a historic hazelnut orchard and living history farm in Springfield, Oregon, that serves as both a working farm and public park.
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B.
Zorthian Ranch
Zorthian Ranch is an eclectic art-filled compound and former bohemian enclave in the foothills above Altadena, California, known for its whimsical sculptures, murals, and creative community gatherings.
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C.
Sycamore Valley Ranch
Sycamore Valley Ranch is the California estate formerly known as Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, famous for its sprawling grounds and association with the pop icon.
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D.
Lancer Ranch
Lancer Ranch is the central fictional cattle ranch setting in the Western TV series "Lancer," home to the Lancer family and much of the show's drama.
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E.
Alta Dena Ranch
Alta Dena Ranch was a historic ranch in Southern California whose name inspired the nearby community of Altadena.
- 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: Terrill ranch Target entity description: Terrill ranch is a fictional Western cattle ranch featured in the 1958 film "The Big Country," central to the story’s land and water rights conflict.
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A.
Dorris Ranch
Dorris Ranch is a historic hazelnut orchard and living history farm in Springfield, Oregon, that serves as both a working farm and public park.
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B.
Zorthian Ranch
Zorthian Ranch is an eclectic art-filled compound and former bohemian enclave in the foothills above Altadena, California, known for its whimsical sculptures, murals, and creative community gatherings.
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C.
Sycamore Valley Ranch
Sycamore Valley Ranch is the California estate formerly known as Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, famous for its sprawling grounds and association with the pop icon.
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D.
Lancer Ranch
Lancer Ranch is the central fictional cattle ranch setting in the Western TV series "Lancer," home to the Lancer family and much of the show's drama.
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E.
Alta Dena Ranch
Alta Dena Ranch was a historic ranch in Southern California whose name inspired the nearby community of Altadena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional ranch ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Big Country ⓘ |
| associatedFamily | Terrill family ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | Hannassey ranch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| economicActivity | cattle ranching ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Big Country universe ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cattle range
ⓘ
water access ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Major Henry Terrill ⓘ |
| hasThemeAssociation |
class and power dynamics
ⓘ
frontier justice ⓘ pride and honor ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitle | The Big Country ⓘ |
| isCentralTo |
land rights conflict
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water rights conflict ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalRegion | American West ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
primary setting
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source of conflict ⓘ |
| resourceInDispute |
grazing land
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water supply ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1958 ⓘ |
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: Terrill ranch Description of subject: Terrill ranch is a fictional Western cattle ranch featured in the 1958 film "The Big Country," central to the story’s land and water rights conflict.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.