Cotton Weary
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Cotton Weary is a fictional character from the Scream horror film series, known as a wrongfully accused man whose ordeal with the Ghostface killings makes him a key figure in the franchise’s overarching narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cotton Weary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11319560 — 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: Cotton Weary Context triple: [Liev Schreiber, portrayedCharacter, Cotton Weary]
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A.
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
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B.
Willin’
"Willin’" is a country-rock song written by Lowell George that became one of the signature tracks of his band Little Feat.
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C.
Hickory Wind
"Hickory Wind" is a country song best known for its poignant, nostalgic lyrics about longing for home, originally written by Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan and popularized through Parsons' recordings.
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D.
Goin' South
Goin' South is a 1978 Western comedy film directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, known for its offbeat humor and Nicholson’s portrayal of a bumbling outlaw.
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E.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
McKinney's Cotton Pickers was an influential late-1920s and early-1930s African American jazz and dance band known for its sophisticated arrangements and key role in the development of big band swing.
- 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: Cotton Weary Target entity description: Cotton Weary is a fictional character from the Scream horror film series, known as a wrongfully accused man whose ordeal with the Ghostface killings makes him a key figure in the franchise’s overarching narrative.
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A.
The Weary Kind
"The Weary Kind" is a country ballad written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for the film "Crazy Heart," widely recognized for its poignant portrayal of a washed-up musician's struggles.
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B.
Willin’
"Willin’" is a country-rock song written by Lowell George that became one of the signature tracks of his band Little Feat.
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C.
Hickory Wind
"Hickory Wind" is a country song best known for its poignant, nostalgic lyrics about longing for home, originally written by Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan and popularized through Parsons' recordings.
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D.
Goin' South
Goin' South is a 1978 Western comedy film directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, known for its offbeat humor and Nicholson’s portrayal of a bumbling outlaw.
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E.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
McKinney's Cotton Pickers was an influential late-1920s and early-1930s African American jazz and dance band known for its sophisticated arrangements and key role in the development of big band swing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scream (franchise) character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| alignment | generally good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Scream
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Scream 2 ⓘ Scream 3 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dewey Riley
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Gale Weathers ⓘ Maureen Prescott ⓘ Sidney Prescott ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kevin Williamson ⓘ |
| deathCause | stabbed by Ghostface ⓘ |
| deathIn | Scream 3 ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Ghostface ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Scream franchise
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linked to:
Scream film series
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| firstAppearance | Scream ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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slasher ⓘ |
| laterResidence |
Los Angeles, California (fictionalized)
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linked to:
Los Angeles (fictionalized)
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| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
supporting character
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victim of Ghostface ⓘ wrongfully accused man ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being falsely imprisoned for Maureen Prescott’s murder
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later becoming a media personality ⓘ |
| occupation |
ex-convict
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talk show host ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Liev Schreiber ⓘ |
| relationshipToGaleWeathers | subject of her investigative reporting ⓘ |
| relationshipToSidneyPrescott | former suspect in her mother’s murder ⓘ |
| setting |
Woodsboro, California (fictional)
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linked to:
Woodsboro, California
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| significantEvent |
becomes a minor celebrity after exoneration
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exonerated after the first Woodsboro Ghostface killings ⓘ hosts the TV show 100% Cotton ⓘ killed by Ghostface at the beginning of Scream 3 ⓘ wrongfully convicted of murdering Maureen Prescott ⓘ |
| wrongfullyAccusedOf | murder of Maureen Prescott ⓘ |
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: Cotton Weary Description of subject: Cotton Weary is a fictional character from the Scream horror film series, known as a wrongfully accused man whose ordeal with the Ghostface killings makes him a key figure in the franchise’s overarching narrative.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.