Jon Thoday
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Jon Thoday is a British television producer and co-founder of the production company Avalon, known for overseeing numerous successful comedy and entertainment programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jon Thoday canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9280882 — 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: Jon Thoday Context triple: [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, executiveProducer, Jon Thoday]
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A.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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B.
Colin Goad
Colin Goad is a British maritime administrator who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, overseeing global shipping safety and environmental standards.
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C.
Ian Meadows
Ian Meadows is an Australian actor and writer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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D.
Leo Barnes
Leo Barnes is a former police sergeant turned security chief who becomes a key resistance figure fighting to end the annual Purge in the dystopian horror-thriller film series.
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E.
Timothy Drury
Timothy Drury is an American keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work with rock bands such as the Eagles and Whitesnake.
- 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: Jon Thoday Target entity description: Jon Thoday is a British television producer and co-founder of the production company Avalon, known for overseeing numerous successful comedy and entertainment programs.
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A.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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B.
Colin Goad
Colin Goad is a British maritime administrator who served as Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization, overseeing global shipping safety and environmental standards.
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C.
Ian Meadows
Ian Meadows is an Australian actor and writer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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D.
Leo Barnes
Leo Barnes is a former police sergeant turned security chief who becomes a key resistance figure fighting to end the annual Purge in the dystopian horror-thriller film series.
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E.
Timothy Drury
Timothy Drury is an American keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work with rock bands such as the Eagles and Whitesnake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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businessperson ⓘ talent manager ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Avalon
NERFINISHED
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Avalon Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Avalon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
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entertainment ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Alex Horne
NERFINISHED
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Frank Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ John Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Mack NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
managing comedians
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producing comedy television programmes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breeders
NERFINISHED
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Catastrophe NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantasy Football League NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Springer: The Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Not Going Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Howard’s Good News NERFINISHED ⓘ TV Burp NERFINISHED ⓘ Taskmaster NERFINISHED ⓘ The Frank Skinner Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Russell Howard Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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talent manager ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | managing director of Avalon ⓘ |
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: Jon Thoday Description of subject: Jon Thoday is a British television producer and co-founder of the production company Avalon, known for overseeing numerous successful comedy and entertainment programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.