Tolman Cotton
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Tolman Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known as the father of Rosie Cotton, Samwise Gamgee’s wife.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tolman Cotton canonical | 2 |
| Tolman Cotton Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152008 — 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: Tolman Cotton Context triple: [Rosie Cotton, father, Tolman Cotton]
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A.
Mays Gilliam
Mays Gilliam is the fictional Washington, D.C. alderman who becomes an unlikely presidential candidate in the comedy film "Head of State."
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B.
W. C. Talty
W. C. Talty was a local figure of significance in Kaufman County, Texas, for whom the community of Talty was named.
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C.
Cordell Walker
Cordell Walker is the tough, morally driven Texas Ranger portrayed by Chuck Norris in the action-crime television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
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D.
Tommie Earl Jenkins
Tommie Earl Jenkins is an American actor and voice actor best known for his performance as Die-Hardman in the video game Death Stranding.
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E.
Lonnie Fuller
Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
- 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: Tolman Cotton Target entity description: Tolman Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known as the father of Rosie Cotton, Samwise Gamgee’s wife.
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A.
Mays Gilliam
Mays Gilliam is the fictional Washington, D.C. alderman who becomes an unlikely presidential candidate in the comedy film "Head of State."
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B.
W. C. Talty
W. C. Talty was a local figure of significance in Kaufman County, Texas, for whom the community of Talty was named.
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C.
Cordell Walker
Cordell Walker is the tough, morally driven Texas Ranger portrayed by Chuck Norris in the action-crime television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
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D.
Tommie Earl Jenkins
Tommie Earl Jenkins is an American actor and voice actor best known for his performance as Die-Hardman in the video game Death Stranding.
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E.
Lonnie Fuller
Lonnie Fuller is an individual notable enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Fuller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
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Fictional character ⓘ Hobbit ⓘ Hobbit of the Shire ⓘ Male hobbit ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Farmer Cotton
NERFINISHED
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Tom Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings
NERFINISHED
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NERFINISHED ⓘ The Scouring of the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cotton family
NERFINISHED
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Rose Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Samwise Gamgee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | The Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Shire-hobbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Jolly Cotton
NERFINISHED
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Nibs Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Tom Cotton ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | The Return of the King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| givenName | Tolman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Jolly Cotton
NERFINISHED
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Nibs Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Tom Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mrs. Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| home | Cotton farm at Bywater ⓘ |
| inRegion | Eriador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inUniverse | Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Westron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalty |
Hobbits of Bywater
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The Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | Literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Being the father of Rose Cotton
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Helping resist Sharkey’s ruffians ⓘ |
| occupation | Farmer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Scouring of the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Hobbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Bywater
NERFINISHED
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The Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ Westfarthing 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: Tolman Cotton Description of subject: Tolman Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, best known as the father of Rosie Cotton, Samwise Gamgee’s wife.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tolman Cotton Jr.