Edward O’Kelley
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Edward O’Kelley was an American gunman best known for fatally shooting Robert Ford, the man who killed outlaw Jesse James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward O’Kelley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10322563 — 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: Edward O’Kelley Context triple: [Robert Ford, killedBy, Edward O’Kelley]
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A.
James T. Kelley
James T. Kelley was an early 20th-century film actor best known for his supporting roles in silent comedies, including several Charlie Chaplin films.
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B.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
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C.
Steven Kellogg
Steven Kellogg is an American author and illustrator best known for his humorous and detailed picture books for children, including the popular Pinkerton series.
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D.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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E.
William Darrah Kelley
William Darrah Kelley was a prominent 19th-century American Republican politician and staunch advocate of protective tariffs and civil rights, who served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- 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: Edward O’Kelley Target entity description: Edward O’Kelley was an American gunman best known for fatally shooting Robert Ford, the man who killed outlaw Jesse James.
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A.
James T. Kelley
James T. Kelley was an early 20th-century film actor best known for his supporting roles in silent comedies, including several Charlie Chaplin films.
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B.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
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C.
Steven Kellogg
Steven Kellogg is an American author and illustrator best known for his humorous and detailed picture books for children, including the popular Pinkerton series.
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D.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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E.
William Darrah Kelley
William Darrah Kelley was a prominent 19th-century American Republican politician and staunch advocate of protective tariffs and civil rights, who served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
gunman ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jesse James
ⓘ
Robert Ford ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1857-10-01 ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
ⓘ
linked to:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathOf | Robert Ford ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder of Robert Ford ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfKillingOfRobertFord | 1892-06-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfPardon | 1902 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1904-01-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish American (reported) ⓘ |
| familyName |
O’Kelley
ⓘ
linked to:
O’Kelly
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
American Old West era
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| imprisonedIn | Colorado State Penitentiary ⓘ |
| killed | Robert Ford ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Joe Burnett
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| knownFor | avenging Jesse James by killing Robert Ford ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | shot to death ⓘ |
| mediaPortrayal | depicted in works about Jesse James and Robert Ford ⓘ |
| motiveDescribedAs | revenge for the killing of Jesse James ⓘ |
| name | Edward Capehart O’Kelley ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
killed by a police officer in Oklahoma City after attacking him with a shotgun
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shot and killed Robert Ford in a saloon in Creede, Colorado ⓘ |
| notableFor | killing Robert Ford ⓘ |
| occupation | gunman ⓘ |
| pardonedBy | Colorado Governor James Bradley Orman ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
ⓘ
linked to:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma Territory ⓘ |
| placeOfKillingOfRobertFord | Creede, Colorado ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
American Old West
ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
|
| releasedFromPrisonIn | 1902 ⓘ |
| sentence | life imprisonment ⓘ |
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: Edward O’Kelley Description of subject: Edward O’Kelley was an American gunman best known for fatally shooting Robert Ford, the man who killed outlaw Jesse James.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.