Thomas
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Thomas is the given name of the British philosopher and political theorist T. H. Green, a key figure in 19th-century British Idealism.
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 T10115208 — 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: [T. H. Green, givenName, Thomas]
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John
John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
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John
John is the given name of John Vlissides, a software engineer best known as one of the “Gang of Four” authors of the influential book *Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software*.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
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John
John is the given name of Lord Eldon, a prominent British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor in the early 19th century.
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John
John Bacon was a 19th-century American politician who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
- 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 name of the British philosopher and political theorist T. H. Green, a key figure in 19th-century British Idealism.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, a prominent 18th-century British Whig statesman and prime minister.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Idealist
ⓘ
human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ |
| almaMater | Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1836-04-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1882-03-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
philosophy
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political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Hill ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bernard Bosanquet
NERFINISHED
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L. T. Hobhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ R. H. Tawney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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G. W. F. Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to liberal political theory
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development of British Idealism ⓘ theory of positive freedom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
ethics
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metaphysics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| movement |
British Idealism
NERFINISHED
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Idealism ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation
NERFINISHED
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Prolegomena to Ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | British Idealism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birkin, Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Charlotte Byron Symonds 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 name of the British philosopher and political theorist T. H. Green, a key figure in 19th-century British Idealism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.