Robert Sallee James
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Robert Sallee James was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and farmer best known as the father of outlaw Jesse James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Sallee James canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10322515 — 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: Robert Sallee James Context triple: [Jesse James, parent, Robert Sallee James]
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
Robert Woodley Brown
Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
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D.
E. J. Milner Allen
E. J. Milner Allen was an architect best known for his work on the landmark Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.
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E.
J. K. Reynolds
J. K. Reynolds is a technical author known for contributing to Internet standards documentation, including RFC 973.
- 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: Robert Sallee James Target entity description: Robert Sallee James was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and farmer best known as the father of outlaw Jesse James.
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A.
Hilton Smith
Hilton Smith was an American Negro League pitcher renowned for his exceptional curveball and success with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
C. T. Wilkins
C. T. Wilkins was an aircraft designer best known for his role in creating the British World War II de Havilland Mosquito multirole combat aircraft.
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C.
Robert Woodley Brown
Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
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D.
E. J. Milner Allen
E. J. Milner Allen was an architect best known for his work on the landmark Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.
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E.
J. K. Reynolds
J. K. Reynolds is a technical author known for contributing to Internet standards documentation, including RFC 973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baptist minister
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| child |
Frank James
ⓘ
Jesse James ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown College (Kentucky)
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgetown College
|
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | James ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian ministry
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelative |
Frank James
ⓘ
Jesse James ⓘ Zerelda Cole James ⓘ
linked to:
Zerelda Cobb James
|
| knownAs | Rev. Robert S. James ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Baptist Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Baptists
|
| middleName | Sallee ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of Frank James
ⓘ
being the father of Jesse James ⓘ |
| occupation |
Baptist minister
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Logan County, Kentucky ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| placeOfResidence |
Clay County, Missouri
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Zerelda Cole James
ⓘ
linked to:
Zerelda Cobb James
|
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: Robert Sallee James Description of subject: Robert Sallee James was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and farmer best known as the father of outlaw Jesse James.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.