Tom Atkins
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Tom Atkins is an American character actor best known for his roles in numerous horror and thriller films, particularly in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Atkins canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2129534 — 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 Atkins Context triple: [My Bloody Valentine 3D, starring, Tom Atkins]
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A.
James Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously the long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair.
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B.
Christopher Gordon
Christopher Gordon is an Australian composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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C.
Bob Morrison
Bob Morrison is an American country music songwriter best known for penning hits such as Kenny Rogers’ “You Decorated My Life.”
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D.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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E.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
- 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 Atkins Target entity description: Tom Atkins is an American character actor best known for his roles in numerous horror and thriller films, particularly in the 1980s.
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A.
James Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and was previously the long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair.
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B.
Christopher Gordon
Christopher Gordon is an Australian composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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C.
Bob Morrison
Bob Morrison is an American country music songwriter best known for penning hits such as Kenny Rogers’ “You Decorated My Life.”
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D.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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E.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Furlong was an Argentine basketball player renowned as one of the sport’s early international stars, particularly for leading Argentina to prominence in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Atkins Description of subject: Tom Atkins is an American character actor best known for his roles in numerous horror and thriller films, particularly in the 1980s.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Detective Ray Cameron in Night of the Creeps
subject linked to:
Michael Hunsaker in Lethal Weapon
subject linked to:
The Law