Thomas
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Thomas is the given first name of American actor Tom Skerritt, known for roles in films like "Alien" and "Top Gun."
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 T9305340 — 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: [Tom Skerritt, givenName, Thomas]
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A.
Thomas
Thomas is the middle name of Edward Thomas Wailes, an American diplomat.
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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 given first name of American actor Tom Skerritt, known for roles in films like "Alien" and "Top Gun."
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Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of American actor Tom Sizemore, known for his intense supporting roles in crime and war films.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of English actor Tom Sturridge, known for his work in film, television, and theatre.
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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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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the birth name of American actor and producer Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood’s most famous and highest-grossing movie stars.
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Thomas
Thomas is the first name of American actor Mark Harmon, best known for his long-running role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the television series "NCIS."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Tom Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-08-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Los Angeles
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Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Dallas in Alien
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Sheriff Jimmy Brock in Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ Viper in Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A River Runs Through It
NERFINISHED
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Alien NERFINISHED ⓘ Brothers & Sisters (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheers (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Contact NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold and Maude NERFINISHED ⓘ M*A*S*H (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ Poltergeist III NERFINISHED ⓘ Steel Magnolias NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dead Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rookie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Turning Point NERFINISHED ⓘ Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ Up in Smoke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charlotte Shanks
NERFINISHED
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Julie Tokashiki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Oran 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: Thomas Description of subject: Thomas is the given first name of American actor Tom Skerritt, known for roles in films like "Alien" and "Top Gun."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.