Tony Thomas
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Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony Thomas canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200403 — 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)
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Target entity: Tony Thomas Context triple: [The Golden Girls, executiveProducer, Tony Thomas]
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A.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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B.
Brent Thomas
Brent Thomas is an advertising professional best known for writing Apple’s iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial.
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C.
Kenny Thomas
Kenny Thomas is a former American professional basketball player and standout power forward who starred at the University of New Mexico before enjoying an 11-year NBA career.
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D.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
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E.
Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson is an American mixed martial artist and elite kickboxer known for his karate-based striking style and long tenure as a top contender in the UFC.
- 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: Tony Thomas Target entity description: Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
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A.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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B.
Brent Thomas
Brent Thomas is an advertising professional best known for writing Apple’s iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial.
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C.
Kenny Thomas
Kenny Thomas is a former American professional basketball player and standout power forward who starred at the University of New Mexico before enjoying an 11-year NBA career.
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D.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
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E.
Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson is an American mixed martial artist and elite kickboxer known for his karate-based striking style and long tenure as a top contender in the UFC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
human ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film industry
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American television industry ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions
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surface form:
Witt/Thomas Productions
Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Thomas ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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television production ⓘ |
| genre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Tony ⓘ |
| name | Tony Thomas self-link ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Primetime Emmy Awards
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surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award
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| notableWork |
Benson
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Blossom ⓘ Dead Poets Society ⓘ Empty Nest ⓘ Soap ⓘ The Golden Girls ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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television producer ⓘ |
| partnerInBusinessWith |
Paul Junger Witt
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Susan Harris ⓘ |
| produced |
Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)
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Benson ⓘ Blossom ⓘ Dead Poets Society ⓘ Empty Nest ⓘ Soap ⓘ The Golden Girls ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Tony Thomas Description of subject: Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nurses (U.S. TV series)