Tom Cross
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Tom Cross is an Academy Award–winning American film editor known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Whiplash" and "La La Land."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Cross canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1982462 — 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 Cross Context triple: [La La Land, editor, Tom Cross]
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A.
Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan is the central protagonist of the television series "The Unit," depicted as a highly skilled and seasoned leader of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
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B.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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C.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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D.
Jonathan Byers
Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
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E.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
- 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 Cross Target entity description: Tom Cross is an Academy Award–winning American film editor known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Whiplash" and "La La Land."
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A.
Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan is the central protagonist of the television series "The Unit," depicted as a highly skilled and seasoned leader of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
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B.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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C.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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D.
Jonathan Byers
Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
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E.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film editor
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film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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BAFTA Award for Best Editing ⓘ Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Editing ⓘ Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| edited |
First Man
ⓘ
Hostiles ⓘ Joy ⓘ La La Land ⓘ No Time to Die ⓘ The Greatest Showman ⓘ The Space Between Us (album) ⓘ
surface form:
The Space Between Us
Whiplash ⓘ Whiplash ⓘ
surface form:
Whiplash (short film)
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| genreSpecialization |
drama films
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musical films ⓘ thriller films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaboration with Damien Chazelle ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
First Man
ⓘ
Hostiles ⓘ Joy ⓘ La La Land ⓘ No Time to Die ⓘ The Greatest Showman ⓘ The Space Between Us (album) ⓘ
surface form:
The Space Between Us
Whiplash ⓘ Whiplash ⓘ
surface form:
Whiplash (short film)
|
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedWith | Damien Chazelle ⓘ |
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 Cross Description of subject: Tom Cross is an Academy Award–winning American film editor known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Whiplash" and "La La Land."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.