Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character)
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Tom Chaney is the cowardly drifter and murderer whose killing of Mattie Ross’s father sets off the central revenge quest in Charles Portis’s novel "True Grit."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Chaney (True Grit 2010) | 1 |
| Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13003268 — 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: Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character) Context triple: [Tom Chaney, basedOn, Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character)]
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A.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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B.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and following the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn on a new adventure.
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C.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter famed for his marksmanship and colorful life in the Old West.
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D.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill is a 2011 British crime drama film about an ex-con trying to reconnect with his sons in East London, directed by Dexter Fletcher in his feature directorial debut.
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E.
Mattie Ross
Mattie Ross is the determined, sharp-witted teenage heroine of the Western story "True Grit," known for seeking justice for her father's murder with unwavering resolve.
- 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: Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character) Target entity description: Tom Chaney is the cowardly drifter and murderer whose killing of Mattie Ross’s father sets off the central revenge quest in Charles Portis’s novel "True Grit."
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A.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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B.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and following the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn on a new adventure.
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C.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill was a legendary 19th-century American frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter famed for his marksmanship and colorful life in the Old West.
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D.
Wild Bill
Wild Bill is a 2011 British crime drama film about an ex-con trying to reconnect with his sons in East London, directed by Dexter Fletcher in his feature directorial debut.
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E.
Mattie Ross
Mattie Ross is the determined, sharp-witted teenage heroine of the Western story "True Grit," known for seeking justice for her father's murder with unwavering resolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
novel character ⓘ |
| alignment | villainous ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
True Grit
ⓘ
linked to:
True Grit (novel)
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| appearsInWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
cowardice
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justice ⓘ retribution ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| characterIn | True Grit (novel) ⓘ |
| characterTrait | cowardly ⓘ |
| commitsCrime | murder ⓘ |
| creator | Charles Portis ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
True Grit (1968 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
True Grit (novel)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| kills | Mattie Ross’s father ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | literature ⓘ |
| murders | Frank Ross ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
catalyst for revenge quest ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation | drifter ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Mattie Ross ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
LaBoeuf
ⓘ
Mattie Ross ⓘ Rooster Cogburn ⓘ |
| setting |
American Old West
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linked to:
Old West
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| victimOfMurder | Frank Ross ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1968 ⓘ |
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: Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character) Description of subject: Tom Chaney is the cowardly drifter and murderer whose killing of Mattie Ross’s father sets off the central revenge quest in Charles Portis’s novel "True Grit."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lucky Ned Pepper in True Grit (2010 film)
linked to: Tom Chaney (True Grit novel character)