Paladin
E239836
Paladin is the sophisticated, gun-for-hire protagonist of the Western television series "Have Gun – Will Travel," known for his black attire, calling card, and strict personal code of honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paladin canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120566 — 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: Paladin Context triple: [Have Gun – Will Travel (TV series episodes), featuresCharacter, Paladin]
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A.
Knight
A Knight in the Order of Prince Henry is a distinguished rank of honor awarded by Portugal for notable services to the country and the spread of Portuguese culture.
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B.
Knight
Knight is a chivalric rank traditionally bestowed for distinguished service or merit, often conferring honor and social prestige.
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C.
Ritter
Ritter is the surname of Thelma Ritter, the acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, working-class roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
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D.
Battlemage
Battlemage is the codename for Intel’s planned second-generation Arc discrete graphics architecture, intended to succeed the first-generation Alchemist GPUs.
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E.
Unseld
Unseld is the surname most famously associated with Wes Unseld, a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach known for his rebounding and outlet passing.
- 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: Paladin Target entity description: Paladin is the sophisticated, gun-for-hire protagonist of the Western television series "Have Gun – Will Travel," known for his black attire, calling card, and strict personal code of honor.
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A.
Knight
A Knight in the Order of Prince Henry is a distinguished rank of honor awarded by Portugal for notable services to the country and the spread of Portuguese culture.
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B.
Knight
Knight is a chivalric rank traditionally bestowed for distinguished service or merit, often conferring honor and social prestige.
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C.
Ritter
Ritter is the surname of Thelma Ritter, the acclaimed American character actress known for her sharp-tongued, working-class roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
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D.
Battlemage
Battlemage is the codename for Intel’s planned second-generation Arc discrete graphics architecture, intended to succeed the first-generation Alchemist GPUs.
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E.
Unseld
Unseld is the surname most famously associated with Wes Unseld, a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach known for his rebounding and outlet passing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alignment | antihero ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Have Gun – Will Travel ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hotel Carlton, San Francisco ⓘ |
| chargesFee | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| education | well-educated ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Have Gun – Will Travel (1957 television series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Have Gun – Will Travel
|
| franchise |
Have Gun – Will Travel (franchise)
ⓘ
linked to:
Have Gun – Will Travel
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasBusinessCardText |
Have Gun – Will Travel, Wire Paladin, San Francisco
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linked to:
Have Gun – Will Travel
|
| hasCreator |
Herb Meadow
ⓘ
Sam Rolfe ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
Hotel Carlton
ⓘ
San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasWeapon |
custom Colt Single Action Army revolver
ⓘ
derringer pistol ⓘ |
| knownFor |
professionalism as a hired gun
ⓘ
sophisticated demeanor ⓘ strict personal code of honor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| moralCode |
helps the oppressed
ⓘ
keeps his word ⓘ prefers negotiation over violence ⓘ |
| motto | Have Gun – Will Travel ⓘ |
| occupation |
gun-for-hire
ⓘ
gunfighter ⓘ |
| oftenHelps | people in trouble ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Boone ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century American West ⓘ |
| speaks | refined English ⓘ |
| symbolOnCard | white knight chess piece ⓘ |
| uses | calling card ⓘ |
| wears |
black clothing
ⓘ
black holster ⓘ mustache ⓘ |
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: Paladin Description of subject: Paladin is the sophisticated, gun-for-hire protagonist of the Western television series "Have Gun – Will Travel," known for his black attire, calling card, and strict personal code of honor.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.