AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns
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AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns is an American Film Institute list that ranks the ten greatest Western films in U.S. cinema history.
All labels observed (1)
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| AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns Context triple: [Red River, includedInList, AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns]
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Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West is a 1999 steampunk Western action-comedy film starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and Salma Hayek, loosely based on the 1960s television series of the same name.
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B.
Wild West
Wild West refers to the American frontier period of the late 19th century, characterized by westward expansion, lawlessness, cowboys, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
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C.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
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D.
Stage West
Stage West was the original name of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, a prominent regional theater company based in Berkeley, California.
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E.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a late 19th- and early 20th-century traveling show that dramatized frontier life with staged battles, sharpshooting, and performances by cowboys and Native Americans, helping to popularize the mythic image of the American West.
- 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: AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns Target entity description: AFI's 10 Top 10 Westerns is an American Film Institute list that ranks the ten greatest Western films in U.S. cinema history.
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A.
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West is a 1999 steampunk Western action-comedy film starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and Salma Hayek, loosely based on the 1960s television series of the same name.
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B.
Wild West
Wild West refers to the American frontier period of the late 19th century, characterized by westward expansion, lawlessness, cowboys, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
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C.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
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D.
Stage West
Stage West was the original name of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, a prominent regional theater company based in Berkeley, California.
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E.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a late 19th- and early 20th-century traveling show that dramatized frontier life with staged battles, sharpshooting, and performances by cowboys and Native Americans, helping to popularize the mythic image of the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ranking list ⓘ |
| basedOn | votes from a jury of film artists, critics, and historians ⓘ |
| broadcastIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| describedAs | list of the ten greatest Western films in U.S. cinema history ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
2008 in American television
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American Film Institute lists ⓘ Lists of Western films ⓘ |
| hasListEntry |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Cat Ballou ⓘ High Noon ⓘ Red River ⓘ Shane ⓘ Stagecoach ⓘ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ⓘ The Searchers ⓘ The Wild Bunch ⓘ Unforgiven ⓘ |
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| listTopic | greatest Western films in American cinema ⓘ |
| listType | top ten list ⓘ |
| medium | television special ⓘ |
| numberOfEntries | 10 ⓘ |
| partOf |
AFI's 10 Top 10
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linked to:
AFI's 10 Top 10 – Animation
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| partOfSeries | AFI 100 Years... series ⓘ |
| publisher | American Film Institute ⓘ |
| rankingCriterion |
critical acclaim
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cultural impact ⓘ historical significance ⓘ |
| subject | Western films ⓘ |
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