How the West Was Won
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How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film that chronicles several generations of a pioneer family as they journey across and help shape the American frontier.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How the West Was Won canonical | 26 |
| How the West Was Won (1962 film) | 7 |
| How the West Was Won (TV series) | 2 |
| How the West Was Won (Life magazine series) | 1 |
| The How the West Was Won (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1283261 — 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: How the West Was Won Context triple: [Debbie Reynolds, notableWork, How the West Was Won]
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The Big Country
The Big Country is a 1958 American Western epic film, directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, known for its sweeping Cinemascope landscapes and exploration of pride, honor, and frontier justice.
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Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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Red Dust
Red Dust is a film associated with director Tom Hooper, known as one of his earlier dramatic works before his rise to international prominence.
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D.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a classic 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford, renowned for its exploration of myth versus reality in the shaping of the American West.
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E.
Winchester '73
Winchester '73 is a classic 1950 American Western film starring James Stewart, renowned for its innovative focus on a prized rifle that links multiple characters and stories.
- 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: How the West Was Won Target entity description: How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film that chronicles several generations of a pioneer family as they journey across and help shape the American frontier.
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A.
The Big Country
The Big Country is a 1958 American Western epic film, directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, known for its sweeping Cinemascope landscapes and exploration of pride, honor, and frontier justice.
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B.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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C.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a film associated with director Tom Hooper, known as one of his earlier dramatic works before his rise to international prominence.
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D.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a classic 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford, renowned for its exploration of myth versus reality in the shaping of the American West.
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E.
Winchester '73
Winchester '73 is a classic 1950 American Western film starring James Stewart, renowned for its innovative focus on a prized rifle that links multiple characters and stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: How the West Was Won Description of subject: How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film that chronicles several generations of a pioneer family as they journey across and help shape the American frontier.
Referenced by (37)
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Bernard Smith
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Kress
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