Rio Bravo (1959 film)
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Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rio Bravo (1959 film) canonical | 4 |
| "Rio Bravo" | 1 |
| 'Rio Bravo' (1959 film) | 1 |
| Rio Bravo (screenplay) | 1 |
| short story "Rio Bravo" | 1 |
| “Rio Bravo” (1959 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2167035 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rio Bravo (1959 film) Context triple: [Jules Furthman, notableWork, Rio Bravo (1959 film)]
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A.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is a 1962 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, celebrated for its elegiac tone and exploration of aging lawmen facing a changing frontier.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rio Bravo (1959 film) Target entity description: Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
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A.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is a 1962 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, celebrated for its elegiac tone and exploration of aging lawmen facing a changing frontier.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Rio Bravo (1959 film) Description of subject: Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Rio Bravo (1959 film)