Thomas Harris
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Thomas Harris is an American novelist best known for creating the character Hannibal Lecter in his series of psychological horror thrillers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Harris canonical | 49 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105136 — 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 Harris Context triple: [The Silence of the Lambs, basedOnAuthor, Thomas Harris]
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A.
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly is a bestselling American crime fiction author best known for his Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series.
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B.
Lee Child
Lee Child is a British thriller author best known for creating the Jack Reacher series of novels.
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C.
James Herbert
James Herbert is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is an American physician-turned-bestselling author best known for her crime thriller novels, particularly the series featuring detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles.
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E.
Vincent Winter
Vincent Winter was a Scottish child actor who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, later working behind the scenes in film production.
- 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 Harris Target entity description: Thomas Harris is an American novelist best known for creating the character Hannibal Lecter in his series of psychological horror thrillers.
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A.
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly is a bestselling American crime fiction author best known for his Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series.
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B.
Lee Child
Lee Child is a British thriller author best known for creating the Jack Reacher series of novels.
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C.
James Herbert
James Herbert is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is an American physician-turned-bestselling author best known for her crime thriller novels, particularly the series featuring detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles.
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E.
Vincent Winter
Vincent Winter was a Scottish child actor who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, later working behind the scenes in film production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American novelist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdCharacter |
Hannibal Lecter
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Will Graham ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crime literature
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fiction writing ⓘ horror literature ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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psychological horror ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasWorkAdaptedAsFilm |
Black Sunday
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Hannibal ⓘ Hannibal Rising ⓘ Red Dragon ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
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| influenced |
Hannibal Lecter film adaptations
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television series Hannibal ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating the character Hannibal Lecter ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Sunday
ⓘ
Hannibal ⓘ Hannibal Rising ⓘ Red Dragon ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ
linked to:
The Silence of the Lambs (novel)
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| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
psychological horror
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serial killers ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
dark psychological themes
ⓘ
detailed characterization ⓘ |
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 Harris Description of subject: Thomas Harris is an American novelist best known for creating the character Hannibal Lecter in his series of psychological horror thrillers.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hannibal Rising (novel)
subject linked to:
Hannibal Rising (novel)
subject linked to:
Hannibal Lecter film series character Barney Matthews