Great Tom
E283572
Great Tom is the famous large bell housed in Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, traditionally rung to mark the college’s curfew and other ceremonial occasions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Tom canonical | 4 |
| Great Tom bell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2627873 — 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: Great Tom Context triple: [Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford, hasBell, Great Tom]
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A.
Ward's Stone
Ward's Stone is a prominent gritstone fell in Lancashire, England, known for its expansive moorland plateau and extensive views over the surrounding countryside.
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B.
Great Bell
The Great Bell, better known as Big Ben, is the iconic large hour bell housed in the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London.
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C.
Prince Rupert's Tower
Prince Rupert's Tower is a historic 18th-century lock-up in Everton, Liverpool, that has become an iconic symbol associated with Everton Football Club.
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D.
Dicker Turm
Dicker Turm is a historic medieval defensive tower and prominent architectural landmark in the German city of Görlitz.
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E.
Smeaton's Tower
Smeaton's Tower is a historic 18th-century lighthouse, now a prominent monument and visitor attraction overlooking the sea on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, England.
- 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: Great Tom Target entity description: Great Tom is the famous large bell housed in Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, traditionally rung to mark the college’s curfew and other ceremonial occasions.
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A.
Ward's Stone
Ward's Stone is a prominent gritstone fell in Lancashire, England, known for its expansive moorland plateau and extensive views over the surrounding countryside.
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B.
Great Bell
The Great Bell, better known as Big Ben, is the iconic large hour bell housed in the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London.
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C.
Prince Rupert's Tower
Prince Rupert's Tower is a historic 18th-century lock-up in Everton, Liverpool, that has become an iconic symbol associated with Everton Football Club.
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D.
Dicker Turm
Dicker Turm is a historic medieval defensive tower and prominent architectural landmark in the German city of Görlitz.
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E.
Smeaton's Tower
Smeaton's Tower is a historic 18th-century lighthouse, now a prominent monument and visitor attraction overlooking the sea on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bell
ⓘ
tower bell ⓘ |
| architecturalContext | Tom Tower ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| function | audible signal for college community ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | famous bell of Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Christ Church, Oxford
ⓘ
Oxford ⓘ Tom Tower ⓘ |
| material | bell metal ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
St Thomas of Canterbury
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas of Canterbury (traditional association)
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| ownedBy | Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| rungFor |
Christ Church curfew
ⓘ
college ceremonial occasions ⓘ special services at Christ Church ⓘ |
| significance |
one of the best-known bells in Oxford
ⓘ
symbol of Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| tradition |
rung daily to mark curfew
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used in long-standing Oxford collegiate rituals ⓘ |
| use |
ceremonial ringing
ⓘ
college timekeeping ⓘ marking curfew ⓘ |
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: Great Tom Description of subject: Great Tom is the famous large bell housed in Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, traditionally rung to mark the college’s curfew and other ceremonial occasions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Tom bell