Iron Eyes Cody
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Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iron Eyes Cody canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008715 — 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: Iron Eyes Cody Context triple: [Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Iron Eyes Cody]
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A.
Cowboy Joe
Cowboy Joe is the longtime Major League Baseball umpire Joe West, known for his colorful personality, record-setting number of games officiated, and occasional country music pursuits.
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B.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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C.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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D.
Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
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E.
Butch T. Cougar
Butch T. Cougar is the costumed cougar character who serves as the spirited athletic and school mascot for Washington State University.
- 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: Iron Eyes Cody Target entity description: Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
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A.
Cowboy Joe
Cowboy Joe is the longtime Major League Baseball umpire Joe West, known for his colorful personality, record-setting number of games officiated, and occasional country music pursuits.
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B.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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C.
Rooster Cogburn
Rooster Cogburn was a legendary racing greyhound celebrated for his exceptional speed and success on the track.
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D.
Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
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E.
Butch T. Cougar
Butch T. Cougar is the costumed cougar character who serves as the spirited athletic and school mascot for Washington State University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Iron Eyes Cody Description of subject: Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor of Italian descent best known for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and for his iconic role in the 1970s "Crying Indian" anti-pollution public service announcement.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
subject linked to:
Kaplan, Louisiana, United States
subject linked to:
"Crying Indian"
subject linked to:
"Crying Indian"