Thomas Keenan
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Thomas Keenan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including scholars, writers, and public figures across various fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Keenan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7332346 — 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 Keenan Context triple: [Keenan, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Keenan]
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A.
Michael Edward Keenan
Michael Edward Keenan is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former NHL head coach, widely known for leading the New York Rangers to the 1994 Stanley Cup championship.
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B.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
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C.
Kevin Rooney
Kevin Rooney is an American boxing trainer best known for coaching Mike Tyson during his rise to the heavyweight championship in the 1980s.
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D.
Michael McElroy
Michael McElroy is an American actor and Tony-nominated Broadway performer known for his work in musical theatre and film.
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- 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 Keenan Target entity description: Thomas Keenan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including scholars, writers, and public figures across various fields.
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A.
Michael Edward Keenan
Michael Edward Keenan is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former NHL head coach, widely known for leading the New York Rangers to the 1994 Stanley Cup championship.
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B.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
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C.
Kevin Rooney
Kevin Rooney is an American boxing trainer best known for coaching Mike Tyson during his rise to the heavyweight championship in the 1980s.
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D.
Michael McElroy
Michael McElroy is an American actor and Tony-nominated Broadway performer known for his work in musical theatre and film.
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Calgary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Bard College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
computer security ⓘ critical theory ⓘ engineering ⓘ human rights ⓘ literary theory ⓘ media theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAppearedOn | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt | European Graduate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPresentedOn | technology and society ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt | European Graduate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
ethics
ⓘ
humanitarianism ⓘ information security ⓘ politics ⓘ privacy ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| notableIdea | critical analysis of humanitarian discourse ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fables of Responsibility
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics NERFINISHED ⓘ New Media, Old Media (contributor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy NERFINISHED ⓘ The End(s) of Human Rights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcaster
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ literary theorist ⓘ media studies scholar ⓘ professor ⓘ professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Director of the Human Rights Project at Bard College ⓘ |
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 Keenan Description of subject: Thomas Keenan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including scholars, writers, and public figures across various fields.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.