Thomas
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Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3095449 — 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 Context triple: [William T. Sampson, middleName, Thomas]
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A.
Thomas
Thomas is a common surname of English and Welsh origin, derived from the given name Thomas and borne by numerous notable individuals worldwide.
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B.
Thomas
Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, remembered for initially doubting the Resurrection until he saw and touched Jesus’ wounds.
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C.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Frankland, a titled member of the British Frankland family.
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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of Boston Corbett, the Union Army soldier known for killing Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the formal given name of Tom Yawkey, the longtime owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
- 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 Target entity description: Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
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Thomas
Thomas is the middle name of Edward Thomas Wailes, an American diplomat.
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B.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, a renowned British naval officer and radical politician of the 19th century.
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C.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson, a prominent military leader during the American Civil War.
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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the full given name of Tom Brady, the legendary NFL quarterback widely regarded as one of the greatest players in American football history.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Tommy Lasorda, the Hall of Fame former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Navy admiral
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middle name ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasMiddleName | Thomas ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf | William T. Sampson ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William T. Sampson