Tom Coleman
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Tom Coleman is an individual known for his involvement in the killing of Jonathan M. Daniels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Coleman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6257631 — 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 Coleman Context triple: [Jonathan M. Daniels, killedBy, Tom Coleman]
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A.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
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B.
Rob Coleman
Rob Coleman is a visual effects supervisor and animation director best known for his work on major films at Industrial Light & Magic, including the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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C.
Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman was an American sportscaster best known for his long career calling Major League Baseball and NFL games on radio and television, particularly for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Browns.
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D.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
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E.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
- 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 Coleman Target entity description: Tom Coleman is an individual known for his involvement in the killing of Jonathan M. Daniels.
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A.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
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B.
Rob Coleman
Rob Coleman is a visual effects supervisor and animation director best known for his work on major films at Industrial Light & Magic, including the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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C.
Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman was an American sportscaster best known for his long career calling Major League Baseball and NFL games on radio and television, particularly for the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Browns.
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D.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
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E.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killed | Jonathan M. Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | acquitted of manslaughter charges in the killing of Jonathan M. Daniels ⓘ |
| movementOpposed | American civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEventDate | 1965 ⓘ |
| notableFor | killing of Jonathan M. Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | deputy sheriff ⓘ |
| participantIn |
civil rights era racial violence in the United States
ⓘ
events surrounding the Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | killing of Jonathan M. Daniels ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hayneville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowndes County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionOfVictim | Episcopal (Jonathan M. Daniels) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| trialHeldIn | Hayneville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWeapon | shotgun in killing of Jonathan M. Daniels ⓘ |
| victim | Jonathan M. Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOccupation | Episcopal seminarian (Jonathan M. Daniels) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimRole | civil rights activist (Jonathan M. Daniels) ⓘ |
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 Coleman Description of subject: Tom Coleman is an individual known for his involvement in the killing of Jonathan M. Daniels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.