Thomas Melville
E203544
Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Melville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268973 — 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: Thomas Melville Context triple: [Herman Melville, sibling, Thomas Melville]
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A.
Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
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B.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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C.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Henry Wolfe
Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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E.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
- 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: Thomas Melville Target entity description: Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
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A.
Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
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B.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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C.
C. S. Van Winkle
C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Henry Wolfe
Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
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E.
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Melville ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Melville family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a brother of Herman Melville ⓘ |
| sibling | Herman Melville ⓘ |
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: Thomas Melville Description of subject: Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.