Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)
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Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) is a Western movie adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring George Montgomery as the mysterious gunman Lassiter.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) canonical | 2 |
| Riders of the Purple Sage film adaptations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11769539 — 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)
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Target entity: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) Context triple: [George Montgomery, notableWork, Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)]
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 television Western film adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring Amy Madigan and Ed Harris.
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B.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns is a 1957 Western film directed by Samuel Fuller, known for its striking black-and-white Cinemascope visuals and Barbara Stanwyck’s powerful role as a ruthless ranch matriarch.
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C.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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D.
The Last Wagon (1956 film)
The Last Wagon (1956 film) is a 1956 Western drama about a wrongfully accused man escorting a group of survivors through dangerous territory after an Apache attack.
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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: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) Target entity description: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) is a Western movie adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring George Montgomery as the mysterious gunman Lassiter.
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A.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 television Western film adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring Amy Madigan and Ed Harris.
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B.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns is a 1957 Western film directed by Samuel Fuller, known for its striking black-and-white Cinemascope visuals and Barbara Stanwyck’s powerful role as a ruthless ranch matriarch.
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C.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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D.
The Last Wagon (1956 film)
The Last Wagon (1956 film) is a 1956 Western drama about a wrongfully accused man escorting a group of survivors through dangerous territory after an Apache attack.
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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 (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | classic Western novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Riders of the Purple Sage (novel)
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linked to:
Riders of the Purple Sage
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| basedOnWorkBy | Zane Grey ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character | Lassiter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributor | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| era | 1940s American cinema ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Riders of the Purple Sage universe ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Lassiter ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | George Montgomery ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Riders of the Purple Sage film adaptations
ⓘ
linked to:
Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)
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| portrays | mysterious gunman ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| setting |
American West
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linked to:
Old West
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| sourceAuthor | Zane Grey ⓘ |
| starred | George Montgomery ⓘ |
| title | Riders of the Purple Sage ⓘ |
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: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) Description of subject: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film) is a Western movie adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring George Montgomery as the mysterious gunman Lassiter.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)