John Dillinger
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John Dillinger was a notorious American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw who became a legendary figure in early 1930s crime history.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Dillinger canonical | 29 |
| Dillinger | 6 |
| John Wilson Dillinger | 3 |
| John Herbert Dillinger | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T879103 — 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: John Dillinger Context triple: [Johnny Depp, characterPortrayed, John Dillinger]
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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C.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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D.
Willie Sutton
Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
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E.
Gregorio Cortez
Gregorio Cortez is a fictional secret agent and father portrayed by Antonio Banderas in the family action film series "Spy Kids."
- 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: John Dillinger Target entity description: John Dillinger was a notorious American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw who became a legendary figure in early 1930s crime history.
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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B.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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C.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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D.
Willie Sutton
Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
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E.
Gregorio Cortez
Gregorio Cortez is a fictional secret agent and father portrayed by Antonio Banderas in the family action film series "Spy Kids."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: John Dillinger Description of subject: John Dillinger was a notorious American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw who became a legendary figure in early 1930s crime history.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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John
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Biograph Theater, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Public Enemy No. 1
Public Enemy No. 1 (FBI label for John Dillinger)
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John Herbert Dillinger
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subject linked to:
Public Enemy No. 1
linked to: John Dillinger
subject linked to:
Mooresville, Indiana, United States
subject linked to:
film "Dillinger" (1945)
subject linked to:
film "Dillinger" (1945)
subject linked to:
film "Dillinger" (1945)
linked to: John Dillinger
subject linked to:
film "Dillinger" (1945)
subject linked to:
film "Public Enemies" (2009)
subject linked to:
film "Public Enemies" (2009)
linked to: John Dillinger
linked to: John Dillinger