Thomas
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Thomas is the first name of American actor and comedian Chris Parnell, known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7162011 — 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: [Chris Parnell, givenName, Thomas]
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A.
Thomas
Thomas is the middle name of Edward Thomas Wailes, an American diplomat.
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B.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
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C.
Thomas
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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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of American astronaut Ken Mattingly, known for his role in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Blamey, an Australian field marshal and senior military commander during World War II.
- 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 first name of American actor and comedian Chris Parnell, known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock."
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Thomas
Thomas is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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B.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of American actor Tom Bosley, best known for playing Howard Cunningham on the television series "Happy Days."
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C.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of the American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor Tom Waits.
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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of English actor Tom Hiddleston, known for his role as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-02-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Germantown High School
NERFINISHED
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University of North Carolina School of the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Christopher Parnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Christopher
NERFINISHED
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Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Chris Parnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | cast of Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| name | Chris Parnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
30 Rock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues NERFINISHED ⓘ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ Hot Rod NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick and Morty NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ Suburgatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Cyril Figgis in Archer
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Leo Spaceman in 30 Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Smith in Rick and Morty ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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 first name of American actor and comedian Chris Parnell, known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.