The Drifter
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The Drifter is a 1929 American silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Drifter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11221572 — 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: The Drifter Context triple: [Ken Maynard, notableWork, The Drifter]
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A.
The Nomad
"The Nomad" is a music release by Australian actor and occasional musician Guy Pearce, showcasing his work as a recording artist beyond his film career.
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B.
The Prodigal Stranger
The Prodigal Stranger is a 1991 comeback album by British rock band Procol Harum that marked their return to recording after a long hiatus.
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C.
The Wanderer
The Wanderer is a song by U2 featuring Johnny Cash, known for its sparse, electronic-infused sound and apocalyptic, spoken-word style vocals.
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D.
The Wanderer
"The Wanderer" is a 1814 novel by Frances Burney that explores themes of identity, social class, and female autonomy against the backdrop of the French Revolution and English society.
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E.
The Wanderer
The Wanderer is an Old English elegiac poem reflecting on exile, loss, and the search for wisdom in a transient world.
- 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: The Drifter Target entity description: The Drifter is a 1929 American silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard.
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A.
The Nomad
"The Nomad" is a music release by Australian actor and occasional musician Guy Pearce, showcasing his work as a recording artist beyond his film career.
-
B.
The Prodigal Stranger
The Prodigal Stranger is a 1991 comeback album by British rock band Procol Harum that marked their return to recording after a long hiatus.
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C.
The Wanderer
The Wanderer is an Old English elegiac poem reflecting on exile, loss, and the search for wisdom in a transient world.
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D.
The Wanderer
The Wanderer is a song by U2 featuring Johnny Cash, known for its sparse, electronic-infused sound and apocalyptic, spoken-word style vocals.
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E.
The Wanderer
"The Wanderer" is a 1814 novel by Frances Burney that explores themes of identity, social class, and female autonomy against the backdrop of the French Revolution and English society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
ⓘ
film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| castMember | Ken Maynard ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ted D. McCord ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Robert De Lacey ⓘ |
| distributor | First National Pictures ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | cowboy ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
silent film ⓘ |
| hasFilmActor | Ken Maynard ⓘ |
| hasGenreCharacteristic | American Western ⓘ |
| hasLeadActorOccupation | cowboy actor ⓘ |
| hasMedium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Drifter ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | unrated (pre-Code era) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent ⓘ |
| partOfFilmEra | late silent era ⓘ |
| productionCompany | First National Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Marian Constance Blackton ⓘ |
| starring | Ken Maynard ⓘ |
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: The Drifter Description of subject: The Drifter is a 1929 American silent Western film starring cowboy actor Ken Maynard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.