David Tomlinson
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David Tomlinson was an English actor best known for his comedic roles in classic Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Tomlinson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308495 — 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: David Tomlinson Context triple: [Tom Jones (1963 film), starring, David Tomlinson]
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Matthew Landon
Matthew Landon is a film editor known for his work on the animated feature "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie."
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B.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
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C.
Tim Reid
Tim Reid is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Simon & Simon," and "Frank's Place."
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Tom Conway
Tom Conway was a British-American actor best known for taking over the role of The Falcon in the popular 1940s film series and for his work in film noir and horror movies.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- 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: David Tomlinson Target entity description: David Tomlinson was an English actor best known for his comedic roles in classic Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
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A.
Matthew Landon
Matthew Landon is a film editor known for his work on the animated feature "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie."
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B.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
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C.
Tim Reid
Tim Reid is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Simon & Simon," and "Frank's Place."
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D.
Tom Conway
Tom Conway was a British-American actor best known for taking over the role of The Falcon in the popular 1940s film series and for his work in film noir and horror movies.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: David Tomlinson Description of subject: David Tomlinson was an English actor best known for his comedic roles in classic Disney films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Water Babies (1978 film)