Tom Noonan
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Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Noonan canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661068 — 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: Tom Noonan Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, starred, Tom Noonan]
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A.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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C.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
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E.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
- 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: Tom Noonan Target entity description: Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
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A.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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B.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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C.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan was an American film and television actor and comedian known for his character roles in 1950s Hollywood movies.
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E.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Tom Noonan Description of subject: Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.