Thomas
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Thomas is the given name of the English chemist and author William Thomas Brande, known for his influential 19th-century works in chemistry.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18593120 — 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: [William Thomas Brande, givenName, Thomas]
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Sir Stamford Raffles, the British statesman best known as the founder of modern Singapore.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Hislop, a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and in colonial India.
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Thomas
Thomas is a character in Simon Gray's stage play "Quartermaine's Terms," which explores the personal and professional lives of teachers at a 1960s Cambridge language school.
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Thomas
Thomas is a character appearing in the animated series "Exit 9B" from the show "Regular Show."
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Thomas
Thomas is the first name of American novelist Tom Clancy, famed for his military and espionage thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games."
- 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 English chemist and author William Thomas Brande, known for his influential 19th-century works in chemistry.
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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 Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
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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 Gainsborough, the renowned 18th-century English portrait and landscape painter.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of the British philosopher and political theorist T. H. Green, a key figure in 19th-century British Idealism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.