Bartholomew
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Bartholomew is the given first name of the famed Old West lawman, gambler, and journalist Bat Masterson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bartholomew canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657867 — 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: Bartholomew Context triple: [Bat Masterson, givenName, Bartholomew]
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A.
Aloysius
Aloysius is a masculine given name of Latinized form, historically borne by several saints and used in various European languages.
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B.
Matthias
Matthias is the disciple chosen to join the Twelve Apostles after the betrayal and death of Judas Iscariot.
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C.
Bartholomew Allerton
Bartholomew Allerton was a child passenger on the Mayflower and the son of Plymouth Colony settler Isaac Allerton, making him part of the early English Pilgrim community in New England.
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D.
Gerard
Gerard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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E.
Thaddaeus
Thaddaeus is a disciple of Jesus traditionally counted among the Twelve Apostles in Christian tradition, often identified with Jude the Apostle.
- 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: Bartholomew Target entity description: Bartholomew is the given first name of the famed Old West lawman, gambler, and journalist Bat Masterson.
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A.
Aloysius
Aloysius is a masculine given name of Latinized form, historically borne by several saints and used in various European languages.
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B.
Matthias
Matthias is the disciple chosen to join the Twelve Apostles after the betrayal and death of Judas Iscariot.
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C.
Bartholomew Allerton
Bartholomew Allerton was a child passenger on the Mayflower and the son of Plymouth Colony settler Isaac Allerton, making him part of the early English Pilgrim community in New England.
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D.
Gerard
Gerard is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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E.
Thaddaeus
Thaddaeus is a disciple of Jesus traditionally counted among the Twelve Apostles in Christian tradition, often identified with Jude the Apostle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gambler
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ lawman ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bat Masterson ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dodge City War ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1853-11-26 ⓘ |
| birthName | Bartholomew Masterson ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Henryville, Canada East
ⓘ
linked to:
Henryville, Quebec, Canada
Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deathDate | 1921-10-25 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| employer | New York Morning Telegraph ⓘ |
| era |
American Old West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| fieldOfWork |
gambling
ⓘ
law enforcement ⓘ sports journalism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bartholomew ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Bartholomew ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Masterson ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Bat Masterson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a gambler in the American Old West
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being a sportswriter and journalist in New York City ⓘ being an Old West lawman ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Ford County sheriff
ⓘ
U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York ⓘ |
| occupation |
U.S. Marshal
ⓘ
gambler ⓘ journalist ⓘ lawman ⓘ sheriff ⓘ sportswriter ⓘ |
| workedAs | sheriff of Ford County, Kansas ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Dodge City, Kansas
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
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: Bartholomew Description of subject: Bartholomew is the given first name of the famed Old West lawman, gambler, and journalist Bat Masterson.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.