Tom White
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Tom White was an American philanthropist best known for funding and co-founding the global health organization Partners In Health and its flagship clinic network Zanmi Lasante in Haiti.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2084190 — 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 White Context triple: [Zanmi Lasante, foundedBy, Tom White]
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A.
James White
James White was a 19th-century American Christian minister and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, known for his leadership, publishing work, and organizational role in establishing the denomination.
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B.
Timothy White
Timothy White is a film producer known for his work on the adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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C.
Jason White
Jason White is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with Green Day and various side projects in the East Bay punk scene.
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D.
Mike Wheeler
Mike Wheeler is a central character in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known as a loyal, determined member of the core friend group who helps confront supernatural threats in the town of Hawkins.
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E.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
- 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 White Target entity description: Tom White was an American philanthropist best known for funding and co-founding the global health organization Partners In Health and its flagship clinic network Zanmi Lasante in Haiti.
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A.
James White
James White was a 19th-century American Christian minister and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, known for his leadership, publishing work, and organizational role in establishing the denomination.
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B.
Timothy White
Timothy White is a film producer known for his work on the adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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C.
Jason White
Jason White is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with Green Day and various side projects in the East Bay punk scene.
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D.
Mike Wheeler
Mike Wheeler is a central character in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known as a loyal, determined member of the core friend group who helps confront supernatural threats in the town of Hawkins.
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E.
James Whitaker
James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| coFounded | Partners In Health ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
global health
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international development ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| funded |
Partners In Health
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Zanmi Lasante clinic network ⓘ
linked to:
Partners In Health
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| hasRole |
co-founder of Partners In Health
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funder of Partners In Health ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Partners In Health
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funding Partners In Health ⓘ supporting global health initiatives ⓘ supporting health care in Haiti ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Partners In Health
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Zanmi Lasante clinic network ⓘ
linked to:
Partners In Health
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| occupation | philanthropist ⓘ |
| partnerOrganization |
Partners In Health
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Zanmi Lasante ⓘ |
| philanthropyFocus |
Haiti
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global health ⓘ health care for the poor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Haiti
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United States of America ⓘ |
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 White Description of subject: Tom White was an American philanthropist best known for funding and co-founding the global health organization Partners In Health and its flagship clinic network Zanmi Lasante in Haiti.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.