James Tomkins
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James Tomkins is an English professional footballer best known as a long-serving central defender for West Ham United and later Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Tomkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4799129 — 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: James Tomkins Context triple: [The Academy of Football, notableAlumni, James Tomkins]
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A.
Robbie Cowling
Robbie Cowling is a British businessman best known as the long-serving owner and chairman of Colchester United Football Club.
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B.
Dominic Lewis
Dominic Lewis is a British-born film and television composer known for scoring a variety of Hollywood projects across action, animation, and comedy.
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C.
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor is a companion of the First Doctor in the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
James Snodgrass
James Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Snodgrass.
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E.
Kai Owen
Kai Owen is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Rhys Williams in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood.
- 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: James Tomkins Target entity description: James Tomkins is an English professional footballer best known as a long-serving central defender for West Ham United and later Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
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A.
Robbie Cowling
Robbie Cowling is a British businessman best known as the long-serving owner and chairman of Colchester United Football Club.
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B.
Dominic Lewis
Dominic Lewis is a British-born film and television composer known for scoring a variety of Hollywood projects across action, animation, and comedy.
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C.
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor is a companion of the First Doctor in the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
James Snodgrass
James Snodgrass is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Snodgrass.
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E.
Kai Owen
Kai Owen is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Rhys Williams in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional footballer ⓘ |
| basedIn | London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1989-03-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| familyName | Tomkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| footedness | right-footed ⓘ |
| fullName | James Oliver Charles Tomkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasRole |
centre-back for Crystal Palace F.C.
ⓘ
centre-back for West Ham United ⓘ |
| hasShirtNumber |
2
ⓘ
27 ⓘ 5 ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
long-serving central defender for West Ham United
ⓘ
playing as a defender for Crystal Palace in the Premier League ⓘ |
| league | Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Crystal Palace F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Derby County F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ England national under-17 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ England national under-18 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ England national under-19 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ England national under-20 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ England national under-21 football team NERFINISHED ⓘ West Ham United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| occupation | association football player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Premier League seasons with Crystal Palace F.C.
ⓘ
Premier League seasons with West Ham United NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Basildon, Essex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Crystal Palace F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Derby County F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ West Ham United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
English Football League Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
central defender
ⓘ
centre-back ⓘ defender ⓘ |
| seniorCareerStart | 2008 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| youthCareerStart | 1995 ⓘ |
| youthClub | West Ham United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James Tomkins Description of subject: James Tomkins is an English professional footballer best known as a long-serving central defender for West Ham United and later Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.