Tom Baker
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Tom Baker is the harried but loving father of twelve children in the family comedy film "Cheaper by the Dozen."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Baker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13286065 — 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: Tom Baker Context triple: [Cheaper by the Dozen, mainCharacter, Tom Baker]
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Seventh Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who."
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D.
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
- 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: Tom Baker Target entity description: Tom Baker is the harried but loving father of twelve children in the family comedy film "Cheaper by the Dozen."
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A.
Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the Fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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B.
Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee was a British actor best known for playing the Third Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor best known for playing the Seventh Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who."
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D.
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor best known for playing the Fifth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton was an English actor best known for playing the Second Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptationType | loose adaptation of 1948 book "Cheaper by the Dozen" ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | family comedy ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tom Baker (Cheaper by the Dozen book character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Charlie Baker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Jake Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyle Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorraine Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Nora Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | balancing career and large family ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfFirstAppearance | 2003 ⓘ |
| filmStudio | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | family comedy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasPet | dog ⓘ |
| householdSize | 14 ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of twelve children ⓘ |
| notableScene | attempts to manage household alone while wife is away on book tour ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 12 ⓘ |
| occupation |
college football coach
ⓘ
football coach ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
harried
ⓘ
loving ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Steve Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequelAppearanceYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| spouse | Kate Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
author
ⓘ
columnist ⓘ |
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: Tom Baker Description of subject: Tom Baker is the harried but loving father of twelve children in the family comedy film "Cheaper by the Dozen."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.