Arthur Barker
E113810
Arthur Barker was a notorious American criminal and member of the Barker–Karpis gang during the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Barker canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T952991 — 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: Arthur Barker Context triple: [Alvin Karpis, partnerInCrime, Arthur Barker]
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A.
John Henry Patterson
John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
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B.
Alfred Drake
Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
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C.
John E. Jacob
John E. Jacob is an American civil rights leader and former president of the National Urban League, known for his advocacy on behalf of African American communities and urban policy reform.
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D.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Richard Loeb
Richard Loeb was an American university student and one of the infamous "Leopold and Loeb" duo who committed a highly publicized 1924 murder in Chicago.
- 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: Arthur Barker Target entity description: Arthur Barker was a notorious American criminal and member of the Barker–Karpis gang during the 1930s.
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A.
John Henry Patterson
John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
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B.
Alfred Drake
Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
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C.
John E. Jacob
John E. Jacob is an American civil rights leader and former president of the National Urban League, known for his advocacy on behalf of African American communities and urban policy reform.
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D.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Richard Loeb
Richard Loeb was an American university student and one of the infamous "Leopold and Loeb" duo who committed a highly publicized 1924 murder in Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal
ⓘ
gangster ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Doc Barker
ⓘ
linked to:
Arthur "Doc" Barker
|
| associatedWith |
Alvin Karpis
ⓘ
Fred Barker ⓘ Ma Barker ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
bank robbery
ⓘ
kidnapping ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criminalStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-06-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1939-01-13 ⓘ |
| era | Great Depression ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| fullName | Arthur R. Barker ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| imprisonedFor | federal kidnapping charges ⓘ |
| incarceratedAt |
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
ⓘ
linked to:
Alcatraz Island
Leavenworth Penitentiary ⓘ
linked to:
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
|
| killedBy | prison guards at Alcatraz ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | shot ⓘ |
| memberOf | Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ |
| mother | Ma Barker ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCrime |
bank robberies in the American Midwest
ⓘ
kidnapping of Edward Bremer ⓘ kidnapping of William Hamm ⓘ |
| notableEvent | attempted escape from Alcatraz in 1939 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most violent members of the Barker–Karpis gang
ⓘ
participation in Barker–Karpis gang crimes in the 1930s ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank robber
ⓘ
kidnapper ⓘ |
| partOf | American organized crime history ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Aurora, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Alcatraz Island
|
| sibling |
Fred Barker
ⓘ
Herman Barker ⓘ Lloyd Barker ⓘ |
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: Arthur Barker Description of subject: Arthur Barker was a notorious American criminal and member of the Barker–Karpis gang during the 1930s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.