Alvin Karpis
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Alvin Karpis was a notorious Depression-era American gangster and bank robber, best known as a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang and one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alvin Karpis canonical | 17 |
| Alvin Francis Karpis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T138163 — 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: Alvin Karpis Context triple: [Alcatraz Island, notableInmateHeld, Alvin Karpis]
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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.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers was a 19th-century American chemist and educator known for his contributions to analytical chemistry and his role in advancing scientific education.
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C.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
- 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: Alvin Karpis Target entity description: Alvin Karpis was a notorious Depression-era American gangster and bank robber, best known as a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang and one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals.
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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.
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers was a 19th-century American chemist and educator known for his contributions to analytical chemistry and his role in advancing scientific education.
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C.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller was an English physician and prominent Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and served as the chief doctor for the Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American gangster
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bank robber ⓘ criminal ⓘ gangster ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activityLocation | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| alias | Creepy Karpis ⓘ |
| conflict | pursuit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
bank robbery
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conspiracy ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ |
| criminalOrganization | Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ |
| era | Great Depression ⓘ |
| fullName |
Alvin Francis Karpis
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linked to:
Alvin Karpis
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| hasGenre | organized crime ⓘ |
| memberOf | Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ |
| notableCrime |
kidnapping of Edward Bremer Jr.
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kidnapping of William Hamm Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFact |
was labeled Public Enemy Number One by the FBI
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was one of the last Depression-era public enemies to be captured ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Depression-era bank robberies
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being one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals ⓘ leadership of the Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ long criminal career spanning the early 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank robber
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gangster ⓘ kidnapper ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime |
Arthur Barker
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Fred Barker ⓘ Ma Barker ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FBI wanted posters
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documentaries about Depression-era gangsters ⓘ true crime books ⓘ |
| wantedBy | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
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: Alvin Karpis Description of subject: Alvin Karpis was a notorious Depression-era American gangster and bank robber, best known as a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang and one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alvin Karpis