Thomas Richards
E293869
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Richards canonical | 6 |
| T. Richards | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928375 — 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 Richards Context triple: [The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), editedBy, Thomas Richards]
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A.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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B.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
- 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 Richards Target entity description: Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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A.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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B.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
Arthur Winslow
Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
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E.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film editor ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era |
Classical Hollywood cinema
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
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| fieldOfWork | film editing ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | film noir ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood
|
| knownFor |
editing classic Hollywood films
ⓘ
editing the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English-language films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
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| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn |
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Maltese Falcon
|
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 Richards Description of subject: Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.